Wyoming horses quarantined following EIA exposure
A Coggins test screens horses’ blood for antibodies that are indicative of the presence of EIA. | Photo: Erica Larson/The Horse

A horse that recently traveled from Colorado to Wyoming and back again has tested positive for equine infectious anemia (EIA), according to the Equine Disease Communication Center (EDCC).

Last week, “the Wyoming Livestock Board was notified by the Colorado Department of Agriculture that a horse which tested positive in Colorado for EIA had been moved to Sweetwater County, Wyoming,” the EDCC said. “While the horse was tested in Colorado, it was shipped prior to test results (being) reported and without an interstate certificate of veterinary inspection.”

The EDCC said the horse returned to Colorado, but a there are a number of Wyoming horses quarantined following EIA exposure. Animal health officials in that state have quarantined 41 exposed equids on the premise at which the horse was residing in Wyoming

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