Number of horses hit in vesicular stomatitis outbreak now at 87
A amount of 87 horses accept been affected yesteryear vesicular stomatitis since the outbreak inwards Texas as well as Colorado began inwards May, latest figures show.
The latest update from the Animal as well as Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), released on Thursday, said 77 horses were currently positive for the disease, which has symptoms similar to pes as well as oral fissure disease. Four cattle are also affected.
All cases accept been identified equally the New Bailiwick of Jersey serotype.
APHIS says that are instantly 35 positive premises nether quarantine – 12 Equus caballus properties as well as ii cattle properties inwards Texas, as well as 21 Equus caballus properties inwards Colorado.
In Texas, Bastrop County had the virtually publish of affected animals – xv horses as well as ii cows across 12 premises. Travis County has 1 premises nether quarantine, where ii horses accept tested positive. The outset instance has been confirmed this calendar week inwards Val Verde, with 1 Equus caballus affected.
In Colorado, Boulder County has 10 affected horses across 8 premises, field Weld County has fourteen infected horses across xi premises. Two counties had their outset confirmed cases this week, with El Paso as well as Larimer counties each having an infected horse.
APHIS said 63 positive premises accept as well as then far been identified across the ii states.
There accept been 4 counties affected inwards Colorado (Boulder, El Paso, Larimer, as well as Weld counties) as well as nine counties inwards Texas (Bastrop, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Jim Wells, Kinney, Nueces, San Patricio, Travis, as well as Val Verde counties).
Six premises inwards Texas (one inwards Kinney County, ii inwards Nueces County, ii inwards San Patricio County, as well as 1 inwards Hidalgo County) accept been released from quarantine as well as at that topographic point are currently 4 other premises inwards Texas on a 21-day countdown to quarantine release.
The 81 animals currently positive for the illness contain 77 horses as well as 4 cattle.
APHIS lists the publish of susceptible animals, including the positive cases, at 609 horses as well as 1879 cattle. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 pocket-sized publish of other species, including pigs, accept also been listed equally susceptible.
Since the outbreak began, 87 horses as well as 4 cattle accept tested positive.
The outset instance inwards the electrical current outbreak, inwards Texas, was confirmed through testing on May 23.
Vesicular stomatitis tin last painful for animals as well as costly to their owners, country veterinary Dr Keith Roehr said.
The virus behind the illness typically causes oral blisters as well as sores that tin last painful to affected animals, causing difficulty inwards eating as well as drinking.
Veterinarians as well as livestock owners who suspect an animate beingness may accept the illness accept been told to contact country or federal animate beingness wellness authorities.
Livestock with clinical signs of the illness are isolated until they are healed as well as determined to last of no farther threat for illness spread. There are no federally approved vaccines for the disease.
While rare, human cases of vesicular stomatitis tin occur, ordinarily alongside those who grip infected animals. VS inwards humans tin motility flu-like symptoms as well as exclusively rarely includes lesions or blisters.
Susceptible species include horses, mules, cattle, bison, sheep, goats, pigs, as well as camelids.
Clinical signs include vesicles, erosions as well as sloughing of the peel on the muzzle, tongue, teats as well as inwards a higher house the hooves of susceptible livestock. Vesicles are ordinarily exclusively seen early on inwards the course of didactics of the disease.
The transmission of vesicular stomatitis is non fully understood simply components include insect vectors, mechanical transmission, as well as livestock movement.
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