LOUISVILLE -- Kentucky's Department of Agriculture has lifted a quarantine on several pet stores in Louisville and Paducah that were part of a precaution against monkeypox.

State officials made the decision after five members of a western Kentucky family tested negative for the disease last week, WLKY NewsChannel 32 reported.

None of the quarantined animals has shown signs of monkeypox.

Test results in a sixth suspected case of monkeypox were pending at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, according to WLKY.

The pet shops under quarantine had received exotic pets from an Illinois supplier where prairie dogs were infected with the virus.