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All commercial pesticide applicators must be licensed through the Department’s Division of Pesticide Regulation under state law. These applicators include turf and lawn care professionals, structural pest control
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Two dead blue jays from Assumption and Jackson parishes and a dead cardinal from Union Parish have pushed Louisiana’s count of West Nile virus (WNV)-positive dead birds past 30. The total number of dead birds infected with the virus is now 33, with 541 birds tested this year and 3,091 reported. The three parishes these new dead birds came from previously had no birds that tested positive for The North American Riding for the Handicapped Association (NARHA) is pleased to announce the receipt of a $25,000 grant from The Pfizer Foundation. The grant money will be used to bolster NARHA’s Regional Education Program. Founded in 1969, NARHA is a membership organization that fosters safe, professional, ethical, and therapeutic equine activities through education, According to several Georgia newspapers, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) has struck nine horses in the southern part of the state. Only three cases were documented in Georgia in 2002. EEE is caused by a virus found in wild birds, and it is transmitted to horses and humans via the bite of an infected mosquito. Horses do not develop high enough levels of the EEE virus in their blood t According to an Associated Press story, “Star Trek” star William Shatner’s ex-wife has sued him for breach of contract over breeding privileges of three American saddlebred stallions. “Marcy Lafferty Shatner claims in her civil lawsuit that her ex-husband broke an agreement in their 1995 divorce settlement that allowed her one breeding privilege per calendar year,” said the There are still no clues as to the identity of the person or persons who left a badly malnourished and injured horse in a riverbed west of the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway last month, according to the Whittier Daily News. However, a reward for information in the case was offered May 7, officials said. Officials from the Southeast Area Animal Control Authority (SEAACA) foun Cooperative Extension professionals from 13 land grant institutions in the southern United States have combined their equine knowledge and launched a comprehensive Web site of peer-reviewed horse information. The group put www.Horsequest.info online in early April. According to a Sonoma, Calif., newspaper, reward donations and suspect leads are pouring in following the recent discovery of a mare who was chased to death in her Kenwood pasture several weeks ago. The investigator in charge of the case said on May 7 that more than one perpetrator may have been responsible. Sonoma County sheriff’s Detective Jack Neely said to the Sonoma A fire destroyed a barn used by an equine rescue operation on May 5 near Colorado Springs, Colo. No people or animals were hurt in the late evening blaze at Hunting Crest Farms Horse Rescue, said El Paso County Fire Marshal Arnie Lavelett in a RockyMountainNews.com article. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. The equine rescue had sheltered 13 of around 50 abused or According to a May 8 article in the Times Record of Fort Smith, Ark., a man convicted of leaving the scene of a personal injury accident involving a horse was sentenced to three months in prison despite defense pleas to spare the defendant who has eight prior felony convictions. “William Randolph Spence, 32, didn’t deny striking a horse as it was ridden from the Old Fort Rode On March 5, 2003, leading researchers from the United Kingdom gathered at Ascot Racecourse to present practical aspects of their research findings to the British Thoroughbred industry. Arranged by the Veterinary Advisory Committee of the Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB) and sponsored by Ascot Racecourse, Transforming Racehorse Health in the 21st Century was the most recent in a series of Since the middle of March, the United Kingdom’s Animal Health Trust (AHT) has confirmed influenza in 20 racing yards (stables) in Newmarket, located in different areas of the town, and in a single breaking/holding yard just outside Newmarket. Most of these diagnoses have been made on the basis of nucleoprotein ELISA positive swab samples but two have been diagnosed on the basis of In the wake of the May 4 tornado that destroyed homes, buildings and lives in the Marionville, Mo. area, many horses were left wounded and without the necessities for survival. Several horses were killed or had to be euthanized due to injuries sustained when one of the worst tornadoes in Missouri history ripped through the state. The horses that survived faced injuries and loss of shelter, North Dakota’s state veterinarian Larry Schuler, DVM, reported the state’s first 2003 equine case of West Nile virus (WNV) on May 8. According to Schuler, test results received from Texas A&M University indicated that a horse in the Fargo area (Cass County) had been infected with the virus. “Since the majority of West Nile virus cases usually appear from July The Association of Racing Commissioners International (ARCI) presented its heralded May Award to the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) during the ARCI’s 69th Annual Convention in April. The award is traditionally given to an individual or organization in racing for the highest level of service and contribution to the betterment of the racing sport. The AAEP was |
