Texas Officials Confirm Eight Equine Infectious Anemia Cases
Edited Press Release
September 16, 2019
Affected counties include Camp, Collin, Kaufman, Tarrant, and Travis.
Affected counties include Camp, Collin, Kaufman, Tarrant, and Travis.
Announcement marks the state’s first 2019 case.
Veterinarians diagnosed the latest five cases in Atlantic, Morris, Ocean, and Salem counties.
This is the state’s second and Brevard County’s first equine WNV case of 2019.
A Spokane County horse tested positive; nine additional horses have been exposed.
Michigan counties affected by Eastern equine encephalomyelitis now include Barry, Lapeer, Kalamazoo, and St. Joseph.
The affected horse resides in Merced County.
To protect horses and other livestock in Ohio, the state is not allowing the import of horses from counties with confirmed and suspected cases of the highly contagious vesicular stomatitis virus.
Here’s the most recent vesicular stomatitis virus update from the USDA.
The diagnosis marks the state’s third confirmed EEE case for 2019.
The 25-year-old Swift County mare had no documented history of WNV vaccination.
All horses were unvaccinated, and all were euthanized.
The horse, which had been rescued six weeks prior to presentation, had an unknown vaccination history.
The Jockey Club board of stewards, concerned with the narrowing of the diversity of the Thoroughbred gene pool, has announced its consideration of a rule to limit the annual breeding of individual stallions starting with the 2021 breeding season.
Here’s your update on VSV-positive states and counties.
New equine West Nile virus cases have been diagnosed in Kern and Stanislaus counties.
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