mouth disease in ND goats

[DayBird]

We had kept a trio of nigerian dwarfs for a friend while he moved. They were great. They were all young and the two does had been bred by different buck than the little boy, who was the youngest. They all did perfectly, as expected.

The friend moved about a month ago and took the goats to his place about three weeks ago. The former owners had a horse that they only came and got last week. The friend has added two pot bellied pigs, four lamas and a pair of boer goats since he's moved. The buck ND and one of the females has a terrible disease on their mouths. Both upper and lower lips are infected and swollen and dry and rough on the outside. They both appear to be eating.

He had a vet come out and says that the vet told him it was "something-something virus" but he has forgotten the name of the disease. He said that the vet told him there was no known treatment, that the disease can lay dormant for up to 12 years, is very contagious, is not species specific and that even humans can get it (he wouldn't let us go in with them or pet them through the wire), that the adults should have shed the disease and built up an immunity to it within 6 weeks but that it will kill the babies if they're born during the next six weeks (they'd be really early if they were.)

My questions are:
What is this disease?
Did we do anything wrong?
Where did it come from?
He has promised us a baby from each doe, as payment for goat-sitting for him...
Should we pass on these goats? (We probably will.)
What should we do to sterilize our facilities where they were kept?

[Misty]

Sounds Like Could Be Soremouth. It Is Viral, Contagious To Humans. It Is Like Getting Chicken Pox, Once They Have It, They Are Immune.

[Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians]

If they are gone from your place 3 weeks they did not catch this from you, the incubabtion period for soremouth is short. The only way the babies would die from this is if they won't nurse from the sores on their mouth or if they give it to mom on her teats and then she won't let them nurse. If they attend the birth, get the kids away from mom immediatly, milk the doe to get colostrum and you bottle the kids, they are fine...and will receive good immunity from their mom who has soremouth right now, so they likely won't get it anyway.

Either the Boer or the Llama gave this to them, or they tracked it in from the places they went to purchase them.

Soremouth like ringworm and pinkeye are simply nusiance problems. The vet was being very dramatic about all this. I would not pass on the kids because of this! A little like passing on a free pup that you want because the mom has fleas. Vicki