Dressage Horse Detained After Positive Glanders Test
Pat Raia
August 17, 2017
Sagacious HF is in extended quarantine in Miami pending the results of additional testing slated for Aug. 23.
Sagacious HF is in extended quarantine in Miami pending the results of additional testing slated for Aug. 23.
While the deadly disease is endemic in Brazil, animal health authorities say the Rio Games’ equestrian facility is safe.
In 2014 a horse in that country tested positive for glanders, which initiated a discussion about testing methods.
A horse at the site tested positive in April, but officials say the diagnosis isn’t necessarily cause for concern.
The stray donkey tested positive after being apprehended and quarantined at a USDA holding pen in Texas.
While eradicated from the United States since the 1940s, glanders is re-emerging in some parts of the world.
Twenty-one horses at a Lebanon racetrack were euthanized after two of them tested positive for glanders.
Glanders, caused by Burkholderia mallei, is a highly contagious bacterial disease in equids and is widely
Glanders has been identified as the culprit in Bahrain, where veterinarians have had to euthanize eight horses in three weeks.
Considering that North America has been free of glanders for more than 50 years, many practitioners and horse owners are, understandably, not familiar with the clinical signs of the disease. As evidenced by the recent importation of an infected horse from Brazil to Germany (see sidebar), this unfamiliarity in countries free of the disease can make it easy for it to slip
Researchers at the University of Georgia (UGA) have received a three-year $1.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop a vaccine to protect against glanders and melioidosis, diseases caused by pathogens that pose potential
The road to the FEI World Endurance Championship (WEC) will be a little longer for Brazil’s six horses because of a recent case of glanders in a horse in Sao Paulo. The European
A case of glanders in a horse in a Sao Paulo, Brazil, has impacted international transport and competition in Brazil and abroad. Event organizers, equine transport companies, and governmental authorities are working closely together to keep
A case of glanders in a horse in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last month has prompted the F?d?ration Equestre Internationale (FEI) to reschedule the Global Champions Tour CSI-5* Final in that
A horse in the southeastern portion of Brazil has tested positive for glanders. This disease has not occurred in this area of the country since 1968. A report on the case was released by the
Glanders is an important infectious equine disease of imposing antiquity. It is endemic in Brazil, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Iraq, India, Pakistan, and some other countries. Equine glanders has been eradicated from North America and
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