The International Collating Center, Newmarket, United Kingdom, and other sources reported the following disease outbreaks.

Contagious equine metritis (CEM) was reported from Germany, Italy, and the USA. A single mare case was reported out of 1,183 animals tested in Germany. Italy recorded T. equigenitalis infection in one non-Thoroughbred mare and two non-Thoroughbred stallions and confirmed T. asinigenitalis in six donkey stallions. An Arabian stallion imported earlier in the year was confirmed a carrier in California.

Outbreaks of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) infection were reported from France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA. The main manifestation was abortion: France reported cases on two premises; Germany diagnosed 14 cases; Ireland, three cases; Japan, eight cases; South Africa, one case; the UK, nine cases and one foal death; the USA, four cases.

Outbreaks of EHV-1 neurologic disease were recorded in Ireland, Japan, Switzerland and the UK. In Ireland, Japan, and the UK these outbreaks were limited to one or two animals on individual premises. The outbreak in Switzerland was extensive, affecting 19 horses and one donkey on one premises; four horses were euthanized and one died