SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. (AP) — Livestock have been quarantined on a western Nebraska farm following the diagnosis of a disease that can hamper an animal’s ability to eat and drink.

The Nebraska Agriculture Department says a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory recently confirmed the diagnosis of vesicular stomatitis. The sample was taken from an infected horse on a farm in Scotts Bluff County.

The virus that causes vesicular stomatitis is spread by insects and from animal to animal through open sores and saliva. The virus causes painful oral blisters and sores and can affect cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, goats and other animals.

The USDA says vesicular stomatitis generally isn’t fatal, but it can cause economic losses to livestock producers. Humans can become infected when handling ailing animals, but the USDA says that rarely happens.