Information reported by the USDA indicates vesicular stomatitis (VS) has been confirmed for the first time this year in Rio Blanco County in Colorado, and Beaver, Carbon, and Salt Lake Counties in Utah.


With this information, The Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) has included each of these counties in the defined VS Embargo Area. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah each have embargoed areas designated by the KDA. Kentucky’s Administrative Regulation 302 KAR 20:115 now prohibits the entry of all livestock, wild animals, and exotic animals into Kentucky from the VS-embargoed portions of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah as described below

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