EHM Quarantine Released in Maine
Edited Press Release
August 24, 2020
Three affected facilities have completed monitoring requirements first enacted in June.
Three affected facilities have completed monitoring requirements first enacted in June.
The El Dorado County case isn’t connected to the EHV-4 case confirmed in Imperial County on Aug. 3.
The filly had attended an Imperial County event on July 18-19. Officials have now placed that facility under quarantine.
The Howard County facility has remained free of clinical signs and positive tests for more than 21 days.
None of the 39 exposed horses developed equine herpesvirus during the monitoring period.
Potentially exposed horses are being monitored for fever and clinical signs.
The facility’s remaining horses have been free of clinical signs for three weeks.
Here’s your update on neurologic equine herpesvirus-1 in Howard County.
Two additional horses exposed to equine herpesvirus-4.
The horse’s Kennebec County facility has been placed under quarantine.
Veterinarians are monitoring 27 exposed horses at the facility.
Thirty-nine additional horses have been placed under official quarantine after their potential exposure to equine herpesvirus.
Six additional Fauquier County horses have been exposed.
Officials state there’s no link between the case at this facility and those at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto or the Dufferin County farm that also recently experienced EHM cases.
The Dufferin County farm outbreak is linked to a Toronto racetrack outbreak.
The Linn County premises where the 14-year-old resides has been quarantined.
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