FDA Approves Loading Dose for EPM Treatment
Edited Press Release
November 2, 2015
The FDA approved a loading dose for Marquis, which is also the first FDA-approved EPM treatment.
The FDA approved a loading dose for Marquis, which is also the first FDA-approved EPM treatment.
The horse from the Greenwood community is recovering and expected to survive.
Reported diseases include vesicular stomatitis, equine infectious anemia, strangles, influenza, herpesvirus, and more.
The 10 year-old gelding from Gloucester County was euthanized on Oct. 3. The horse’s vaccination status is unknown.
The cases are spread across the state, and a lack of vaccination is a prevailing trend in the affected horses.
The majority of the affected horses were not previously vaccinated against West Nile virus (WNV).
The newly confirmed cases make for eight total WNV-infected Kentucky horses this year.
With a mortality rate of 90% in horses, EEE is a serious mosquito-borne disease.
The 19-week-old Racking Horse filly from Chesapeake had not been vaccinated yet. She was euthanized Sept. 24.
The two unvaccinated horses–one from Montgomery County and one from Nelson County–are alive, as of Oct. 1.
Despite cooler temperatures, officials are urging area owners to take steps to protect their horses from disease.
Two horses have been euthanized and dozens more quarantined in a rare West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in France.
The unvaccinated horses from Calhoun and Van Buren counties have been euthanized.
The majority of the affected horses were not previously vaccinated against West Nile virus.
The unvaccinated yearling Thoroughbred colt from Bourbon County is recovering.
Affected horses are from Alamosa, Boulder, Broomfield, Conejos, Fremont, Jefferson, Larimer, Park, and Weld counties.
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