WNV in Iowa Horses: First Cases of 2019 Confirmed
Erica Larson
July 8, 2019
Two horses from Davis and Union counties, Iowa, tested positive for WNV in late June, animal health officials reported.
Two horses from Davis and Union counties, Iowa, tested positive for WNV in late June, animal health officials reported.
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One horse at a rescue facility tested positive for VSV and was isolated. Another horse and four donkeys remain on the quarantined premises.
The 7-year-old Quarter Horse gelding will be euthanized. Two other horses on the index farm have been quarantined.
Six horses from Holmes, Osceola, Suwannee, and Washington counties tested positive for EEE. One is recovering and the other five were euthanized.
Texas Animal Health Commission officials have placed each horse’s home facility under quarantine.
The affected 18-year-old Quarter Horse gelding developed clinical signs on June 7 and subsequently tested positive for both EHV-1 and EPM. The horse had been vaccinated and is recovering.
Officials said the first clinical signs noted were sporadic abortions in a herd of 70 late-term broodmares, five of which developed neurologic signs and were euthanized.
The CHRB recommended suspending the final days of Santa Anita’s race meet, which ends June 23. However, a statement from the track’s operators and two California Thoroughbred industry groups said racing will continue.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed that a horse from the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, Subdivision B, was EIA-positive on May 29.
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The EHV-1-positive horse died in quarantine due to an unrelated medical issue, not EHM (which develops when EHV affects the central nervous system), the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said.
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