EIA in Texas: Cases Confirmed in Smith, Van Zandt Counties
Erica Larson
April 9, 2019
In each county, a Quarter Horse tested positive for EIA in March, and both affected horses have been euthanized.
In each county, a Quarter Horse tested positive for EIA in March, and both affected horses have been euthanized.
The Equine Disease Communication Center reported April 8 that four Quarter Horses from Polk County, Iowa, have tested positive for EIA.
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The Canadian Animal Health Surveillance System said the horses were epidemiologically linked to a previously identified case in Alberta and were sampled as part of an ongoing disease investigation.
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Officials confirmed EIA in nine racing Quarter Horses located at a Smith County premises. Subsequently, seven of the EIA-positive horses and one additional horse on the property tested positive for equine piroplasmosis.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services confirmed a positive case of EIA in a horse at Gulfstream Park, a racetrack in Broward County, Florida.
Six other horses from the same Rutherford County farm tested negative but will remain quarantined until they are tested a second time.
The three affected Quarter Horses from Paulding County have been euthanized.
Officials reported diseases including African horse sickness, equine influenze, strangles, EHV-1, EIA, and more.
Two horses residing on one premises in Cariboo Sub. B., British Columbia, Canada, tested positive for EIA. A veterinarian tested the horses as their owner suspected they’d been exposed to EIA, but neither horse was showing signs of disease at sampling.
This is the fourth confirmed case of EIA in Colorado horses this year.
Equestrian Canada reported Nov. 30 that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency National Reference Laboratory confirmed the EIA case on Nov. 21.
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