Wyoming State Veterinarian Jim Logan, DVM, confirmed Oct. 30 that there are currently 23 active cases of vesicular stomatitis (VS) in that state.

Since the disease was first confirmed in Wyoming earlier this year, there have been 137 investigations and 137 quarantines have been implemented. Of those, 114 quarantines have been release, Logan told The Horse.

“All of the remaining cases are horse cases and all but one of them are in Fremont County,” he relayed. “The other one is in Crook County, up near the South Dakota border.”

Logan relayed that while one horse and one cow have died in association with the VS outbreak, both animals had additional health problems that likely contributed to their deaths

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