USDA proposes additional Ohio and West Virginia counties for Oral Rabies vaccine trials, supplement for the Environmental Assessment available for comment.

The following Federal Register Notice was published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on July 5, 2018. It is reproduced in full below.

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared a supplemental environmental assessment (EA) relative to an oral rabies vaccination field trial in New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and West Virginia. The supplemental EA analyzes expanding the field trial for an experimental oral rabies vaccine for wildlife to additional areas in Ohio and West Virginia. The proposed field trial is necessary to evaluate whether the wildlife rabies vaccine will produce sufficient levels of population immunity against raccoon rabies. The document is available for review and comment at https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=APHIS-2018-0033.

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service