In many horses, the only sign of EHV-1 infection is fever, which can go undetected. | Photo: Stephanie L. Church/The Horse

The New Jersey Department of Agriculture has quarantined a property in Union County after a horse developed the highly infectious equine herpes myeloencephalopathy (EHM), the often-deadly neurologic form of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) infection. It is the first reported case in New Jersey in 2018

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