International Equine Disease Report, Fourth Quarter 2016
Equine Disease Quarterly
April 6, 2017
Confirmed diseases include equine herpesvirus, West Nile virus, African horse sickness, strangles, influenza, and more.
Confirmed diseases include equine herpesvirus, West Nile virus, African horse sickness, strangles, influenza, and more.
None of the samples from recently vaccinated horses had antibody titers close to the value cutoff for true disease.
Diseases reported include African horse sickness, influenza, EHV, EIA, rabies, and more.
The unvaccinated 24-year-old gelding located in McCurtain County was showing mild neurologic signs of disease.
Fourteen Oklahoma horses have tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV) this year.
The Powell County horse is Kentucky’s seventh equine WNV case in 2016.
Only one of 21 California horses diagnosed with WNV in 2016 had a know vaccine histories. Seven of the horses have died.
Two cases were confirmed in Atoka County and one was reported in Sequoyah County.
With unseasonably warm weather persisting into fall, mosquito-borne illnesses remain a serious equine health threat.
Neither the 10-year-old Belgian from Logan County nor the 2-year-old Saddlebred from Union County were vaccinated.
The new cases were identified in horses and ponies from the following counties: Choctaw, Payne, Beckham, and Atoka.
The donkey, which was recently brought to Florida from a Louisiana auction, is recovering.
The 5-month-old filly from Calhoun County is responding to treatment. The dam was vaccinated, but the filly was not.
California and Minnesota have confirmed 20 and 19 equine WNV cases, respectively, so far this year.
Reported diseases include African horse sickness, herpesvirus, influenza, strangles, and equine infectious anemia.
Cases were recently reported in Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Washington.
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