EIA Detected in Mississippi Horse
Edited Press Release
August 29, 2019
This is the state’s first equine infectious anemia-positive horse in 2019.
This is the state’s first equine infectious anemia-positive horse in 2019.
Both are reportable diseases in the state.
A horse and a mule on the same Taylor County premises tested positive.
The Lake County gelding was euthanized and exposed horses were quarantined.
Officials removed the jenny on Aug. 1 and have placed the affected BLM facility under quarantine.
Equine infectious anemia is a viral disease that has no vaccine and no cure.
The affected horse was identified during routine equine infectious anemia testing for interstate movement.
Texas animal health officials confirmed EIA in 16 Quarter Horses on one premises in Kaufman County and a Quarter Horse residing in Montague County.
The 7-year-old Quarter Horse gelding will be euthanized. Two other horses on the index farm have been quarantined.
Texas Animal Health Commission officials have placed each horse’s home facility under quarantine.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed that a horse from the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, Subdivision B, was EIA-positive on May 29.
The Idaho State Department of Agriculture said a horse transported back to Canyon County from Washington in May tested positive for EIA.
The affected horse has been euthanized, and state officials are testing additional horses stabled with or that live near the index case.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency national reference laboratory confirmed one case in the rural municipality of Beaver River and another in the rural municipality of Meadow Lake.
The euthanized Quarter Horses geldings ranged in age from 3 to 9 years old.
Reported diseases included African horse sickness, atypical myopathy, contagious equine metritis, salmonellosis, and more.
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