Eastern equine encephalitis has struck again in northwest Wisconsin, two years after a major outbreak that killed at least 42 horses (see article #2852), prompting the acting state veterinarian to urge horse owners again to vaccinate and re-vaccinate their animals.

Tests at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the National Veterinary Services Laboratory showed that an

Alltech has announced plans for the expansion of three of their corporate facilities located in the United States, Mexico and Great Britain. With the expansions, the company expects to add 350 new jobs in areas ranging from operations and research to marketing, sales and finance

The expansion of the company’s corporate headquarters in Nicholasville, Ky, will take the facility from

The first positive cases of Eastern equine encephalomyelitis (EEE) this year in Maryland have been confirmed in two Lower Eastern Shore horses. Tissues from two horses, both from the Pocomoke City area in Worcester County, were submitted to the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) on July 21 and July 23 and were confirmed positive and reported on July 28,

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Center for Epidemiology and
Animal Health, a part of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service’s (APHIS) Veterinary Services program (VS), recently released its
outlook for the occurrence of West Nile virus (WNV) in equids during 2003.

The outlook discusses factors that influence the viral threat to equids and
resistance of

Even horses are not immune to the changes since September 11, 2001. Florida Equine Veterinary Services prepares to address disaster preparedness in its upcoming Equine Emergency Care Seminar in Orlando in September.

“We don’t know when to expect an emergency, but we can plan for one,” said Dr. Erin Denney-Jones, president of Florida Equine Veterinary Services. “It’s our goal to get

The Equine Health Studies Program (EHSP) at the Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) in Baton Rouge, La., will receive funds from tax revenue generated from slot machines placed in racetracks throughout the state, which is part of a bill recently passed in the Louisiana Legislature. 

“The $750,000 of annually-recurring funding approved will have a

Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines has once again received a generous $10,000 grant from Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA) in support of the Farm’s century-long mission of caring for aged and abused horses.

“Ryerss receives no public funds, so we rely entirely on the generous support of friends like TCA,” said Ryerss President Joseph Donahue. “This kind of grant goes a long way toward

Three new directors have been elected by the membership of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) to serve on the organization’s board. The terms for the directors will begin at the conclusion of the 2003 AAEP Annual Convention in New Orleans, La., November 21–25.

The newly elected board members are:

District IV (South Central): Kenneth Jackso

Pfizer Animal Health and American Horse Publications recently announced that Don Burt has been named as the recipient of the second annual Equine Industry Vision Award. This unique distinction is the first major award to showcase innovation across the equine industry and to recognize ingenuity and service within the horse world. The award was presented to Burt during the American Horse

Immense knowledge of equine health issues and an equally remarkable willingness to share their know-how distinguish the newest inductees to the International Equine Veterinarians Hall of Fame. Ted Stashak, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, professor of veterinary medicine at Colorado State University, and J.D. Wheat, DVM, professor of equine surgery at the University of California-Davis School of

Two veterinarians who have had significant impact on Florida’s equine veterinary community were recently honored through the University of Florida (UF) College of Veterinary Medicine’s 2003 Distinguished Awards program. Lisa Conti, DVM, Dipl. ACVP, Florida’s state public health veterinarian, and Ellis Greiner, PhD, UF professor of parasitology, an individual whose enthusiasm and support for

Alfred M. Merritt II, AB, DVM, MS, will present the Frank J. Milne State-of-the-Art Lecture at the AAEP’s 49th Annual Convention in New Orleans, La., November 21-25, 2003. Merritt’s presentation will highlight advances made over the last 40 years in our understanding of the function and diseases of the equine stomach, with particular emphasis on Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome

The American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) will sponsor two continuing education meetings this summer in Fort Collins, Colo. Scheduled for July 28-30, the first-ever Focus meeting and the 11th annual Practice Management Seminar offer practitioners two separate paths of study for one registration fee.

Focus is a new meeting that spotlights one specific modality or conditio

Caring and carriage driving go hand in rein, as evidenced by Carriage Driving World‘ s $4,400 donation to help Andy Marcoux recover from the loss of one of his legs. Raising the funds through online auctions and a donation collection, the magazine’s top publisher, Donna Hornsby, also paid all of the fees and commissions (more than $250) that otherwise would have been taken out of the