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3 More Missouri Premises Confirmed With Equine VSV

July 20, 2020
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Quarantined equine premises in the state now total four.

Topics: Diseases and Conditions, Horse Care, Horse Industry News, Infectious Diseases, Vesicular Stomatitis, Welfare and Industry

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3 More Missouri Premises Confirmed With Equine VSV

Officials have confirmed three new positive equine premises in Newton County, Missouri, with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV). | Photo: Wikimedia Commons

In its July 16 Situation Report, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed three new positive equine premises in Newton County, Missouri, with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV).

Missouri’s index case of VSV was confirmed on July 13, also in Newton County. The county’s equine premises under VSV quarantine now total four.

The 2020 VSV outbreak in the U.S. began on April 13 in Dona Ana County, New Mexico.

Premises with confirmed positive and suspect cases are quarantined and monitored by veterinarians for at least 14 days from the onset of lesions in the last animal affected

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