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Inactivated African Horse Sickness Vaccine Shows Promise
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA | Jun 8, 2022
Study results suggested vaccination with inactivated viruses of all nine serotypes could protect most horses from AHS.
Read MoreAfrican Horse Sickness Update
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA | Apr 20, 2021
With mortality rates topping 90%, AHS has left a devastating wake of destruction across Thailand and Malaysia. Learn about this disease, the recent outbreak, and what it could mean for U.S. horse owners.
Read MoreAfrican Horse Sickness Strikes Malaysia
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA | Sep 3, 2020
As Thailand’s horse industry is starting to recover from its AHS outbreak, with thousands of horses vaccinated, the neighboring country of Malaysia is addressing its first cases of the disease.
Read MoreAAEP Publishes African Horse Sickness Guidelines
by Edited Press Release | Jul 16, 2020
While AHS doesn’t occur in horses in the United States, a current outbreak in Thailand, with a 94% mortality rate, illustrates the devastation possible when the disease affects a naive horse population.
Read MoreEquine Innovators: African Horse Sickness With Dr. Peter Timoney
by Stephanie L. Church, Editorial Director | Jun 29, 2020
University of Kentucky researcher Dr. Peter Timoney talks about the deadly African horse sickness and what it will take to prevent its arrival in unaffected countries.
Read MoreAfrican Horse Sickness in Thailand: Deaths Pass 500
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA | May 7, 2020
As African horse sickness (AHS) continues to spread across Thailand, horse owners seek vaccines and Cambodia works to protect horses on its Thai border.
Read MoreAHS Deaths Near 500 in Thailand, Vaccination Begins
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA | Apr 28, 2020
Horses are confined to netted stalls to protect them from the midges that spread African horse sickness and to prevent potential spread from the new vaccine.
Read MoreAfrican Horse Sickness: OIE Webcast Offers Sobering Reality
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA | Apr 14, 2020
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) hosted a global webcast as humans—facing a health crisis of their own due to COVID-19—try to protect horses and prevent the spread of AHS during the disease’s current outbreak in Thailand.
Read MoreAfrican Horse Sickness Cases in Thailand Quadruple
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA | Apr 7, 2020
The African horse sickness (AHS) outbreak in Thailand has nearly quadrupled in a little more than a week, reaching 154 deaths and a fatality rate of 94% in horses showing clinical signs.
Read MoreThailand Hit by African Horse Sickness, 42 Horses Dead
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA | Mar 31, 2020
Definitively identified by Thai veterinarians on March 27, this represents the first outbreak of AHS outside the African continent in more than 30 years.
Read MoreLegendary Equine Disease Outbreaks
by Christa Lesté-Lasserre, MA | Aug 6, 2019
We take a look back at seven eye-opening equine disease outbreaks in the past 100 years, including influenza in Australia, equine viral arteritis in North America, and African horse sickness in Spain.
Read MoreInternational Equine Disease Report, Fourth Quarter 2018
by Equine Disease Quarterly | Apr 11, 2019
Reported diseases included African horse sickness, atypical myopathy, contagious equine metritis, salmonellosis, and more.
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