Colorado VS: Positive Diagnoses in Four Counties

While the disease has affected Colorado horses, the remaining quarantines only impact cattle herds, officials said.
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As of Dec. 30, the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s (CDA) state veterinarian’s office has 9 locations in four counties under quarantine after animals tested positive for vesicular stomatitis (VS). The CDA reported that the remaining quarantines do not affect any equine facilities, only cattle herds.

County Number of Currently Quarantined Premises Number of Quarantines Released
Adams 0 1
Archuleta 0 11
Boulder 0 6
Broomfield 0 1
Chaffee 0 1
Conejos 0 4
Delta 1 43
Denver 0 1
Douglas 0 8
Eagle 0 1
El Paso 0 51
Elbert 0 14
Fremont 0 25
Garfield 3 26
Gunnison 0 1
Jefferson 0 7
La Plata 0 14
Larimer 0 48
Las Animas 0 2
Logan 0 1
Mesa 2 53
Mineral 0 1
Moffat 0 2
Montezuma 0 11
Montrose 0 41
Morgan 0 2
Ouray 0 4
Pitkin 0 2
Pueblo 0 1
Rio Blanco 3 2
Rio Grande 0 1
Routt 0 1
Sedgwick 0 1
Washington 0 1
Weld 0 35
Totals (35 Counties) 9 429

“Now that all areas of the state have had freezing temperatures, the insect populations are dormant,” said state veterinarian Keith Roehr, DVM. “The remaining quarantines are in western slope beef herds that likely became infected prior to the weather changing. We are releasing quarantines based on the time from when the last new case of VS was recognized on a facility. At this time it is anticipated we will be releasing the remaining quarantines in early January."

A 2014 outbreak of VS created 556 livestock investigations in Colorado resulting in 370 quarantines with the final quarantines released in January 2015.

A number of species are susceptible to VS, including horses, mules, cattle, bison, sheep, goats, pigs, and camelids. The clinical signs of the disease include vesicles, erosions, and sloughing of the skin on the muzzle, tongue, and teats and above the hooves of susceptible livestock. Vesicles are usually only seen early in the course of the disease

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