Second Kansas County Confirmed With VSV
Edited Press Release
July 2, 2020
Sixteen premises in two Kansas counties remain under quarantine due to vesicular stomatitis.
Sixteen premises in two Kansas counties remain under quarantine due to vesicular stomatitis.
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The state’s index case resides on a Buffalo County premises.
Veterinarians are monitoring 27 exposed horses at the facility.
Cowley and Sedgwick are the second and third Kansas counties with confirmed positive equine premises.
If ECoV tests are positive and a horse is showing classic clinical signs of the disease, including colitis, fever, and lethargy, vets can safely assume he has equine coronavirus disease without further testing.
Thirty-nine additional horses have been placed under official quarantine after their potential exposure to equine herpesvirus.
Maricopa County contains four of the state’s five affected premises.
Six additional Fauquier County horses have been exposed.
The confirmed vesicular stomatitis cases mark the state’s index cases for 2020.
Additionally, authorities have released quarantined premises in all New Mexico and all but two Texas counties.
Five of the state’s counties now have VSV-quarantined premises.
Officials state there’s no link between the case at this facility and those at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto or the Dufferin County farm that also recently experienced EHM cases.
The Dufferin County farm outbreak is linked to a Toronto racetrack outbreak.
No new cases were confirmed in New Mexico or Texas, the other two states affected so far in 2020.
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