The University of Connecticut, working with the Connecticut Department of Agriculture, has quarantined its 72-horse herd due to an outbreak of equine herpesvirus infection.

Equine herpesvirus (EHV), or equine rhinopneumonitis, is passed

Three horses at the University of Connecticut have been confirmed positive for equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) and are showing neurologic signs. Several exposed horses are showing respiratory signs.

The university’s 72-horse herd is currently

Doug Byars, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, a private veterinary consultant in Lexington, Ky., who formerly headed the Hagyard equine veterinary group’s medicine department in that city, was invited to tour the equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) affected areas in

A state-imposed quarantine on most horses stabled at Florida?s Payson Park Training Center was lifted Friday, Jan. 5, as the recent outbreak of equine herpesvirus-1 continued to abate.

Mary Scollay, DVM, track veterinarian for Gulfstream

The USDA is notifying German authorities about the shipment of horses believed to be responsible for the outbreak of neurologic equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) that resulted in six deaths in Florida, and an additional death in California.

The number of samples tested for equine herpesvirus (EHV) at the University of Kentucky Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center (LDDC) rose in 2006 from an average of less than 1,000 tests per year to about 3,500 last year.

Neil Williams,

Five of the six horses previously identified with equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) at  Golden Gate Fields Thoroughbred Racetrack in California tested negative in samples taken Jan. 5, reported the director of the large animal clinic at the

Five more horses from trainer Lloyd Mason’s barn at Golden Gate Fields have tested positive for a neurogenic strain of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) after final samples were tested on New Year’s Day, although none are showing symptoms of the

Stadium Jumping Inc. hosted a meeting in The Jockey Club at the Winter Equestrian Festival show grounds in Florida today (Jan. 4) to discuss the equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) outbreak. Approximately 500 concerned horse owners and professionals

Florida racetrack and state officials say they’re cautiously optimistic that the current outbreak is over, with no new cases of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) detected.

A sixth Florida horse died last Friday. That horse was part of a group

A horse at Fairfield Equine Associates in Newtown, Conn., that tested positive for the neurologic form of equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) last week does not appear to be linked to the group of imported horses whose distribution gave rise to an

On Dec. 20 the state of Florida, in conjunction with the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine, held an afternoon equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) meeting for veterinarians, farm managers, and horse owners in Ocala, Fla., at the

The equine herpesvirus quarantine continued at three Bay Area tracks Dec. 31 as Northern California horsemen await test results that won’t be known until after the New Year’s weekend.

All 40 horses in Lloyd Mason’s barn have been tested

The following is a public notice from the Fairfield Equine Associates Web site, www.fairfieldequine.com. Fairfield Equine Associates is an equine medical facility in Newtown,