International Equine Disease Report, Fourth Quarter 2012
Equine Disease Quarterly
April 23, 2013
Reported diseases include contagious equine metritis, strangles, influenza, equine herpesvirus, and more.
Reported diseases include contagious equine metritis, strangles, influenza, equine herpesvirus, and more.
Researchers studied effects of dispersal on colonies of flying foxes, which transmit hendra virus to horses.
Horses exposed to a lethal dose of hendra virus six months following vaccination did not develop disease.
The organization stresses the need for horse owners across the country to have their horses vaccinated.
Officials are managing a hendra virus case near Mackay after a positive test result was received Jan. 22.
Dr. Roberta Dwyer shares thoughts on the evolution of the publication produced by UK and Lloyd’s of London.
Hendra has not been detected before in that state; horse owners are urged to take precautionary measures.
Protective equipment use and disease awareness likely reduced human infections during recent outbreaks.
Diseases reported include contagious equine metritis, equine herpesvirus, piroplasmosis, and more.
The vaccine was released in high-risk Queensland and New South Wales on Nov. 1.
Biosecurity Queensland received the positive test results late on Nov. 4. The horse was euthanized Nov. 1.
The long-awaited vaccine will be available for horse owners through their veterinarians.
The quarantine was put in place in early September when a horse tested positive for the virus.
Hendra virus risk can be significantly reduced by keeping horses away from fruiting or flowering trees.
The case was confirmed Sept. 5 on a property between Cairns and Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia.
Flying foxes are the type of Australian fruit bat that transmits the deadly hendra virus to horses.
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