Vesicular exanthema

Vesicular exanthema is clinically indistinguishable from foot-and-mouth disease and therefore is of great importance.

Swine vesicular exanthema virus is different from foot-and-mouth disease and swine vesicular disease, but produces a clinically indistinguishable disease. Unlike foot and mouth disease, vesicular exanthema affects pigs only.

All ages

• Low mortality; some deaths can be seen in nursing piglets.
• Salivation.
• Loss of appetite.
• Blisters around mouth, nose, tongue and feet.
• Growing pigs can become weak.

• Feeding raw garbage to pigs.

• Same diagnosis as for suspected FMD and swine vesicular disease and requires laboratory tests for its identification.

• Because it cannot be clinically distinguished from FMD, appropriate authorities should be contacted immediately.