The Australian Horse Industry Council congratulated quarantine authorities for their actions in the case of a horse which became sick during quarantine in Sydney and later was determined to have West Nile virus (WNV). Horse Council president Pau
Magic Weisner, the popular Thoroughbred gelding who finished second at long odds in the Preakness, was diagnosed Sept. 9 with West Nile virus (WNV), said Bob Vallance, DVM, the horse’s local veterinarian in Maryland.
Vallance was in daily
The Connecticut Department of Agriculture recently reported the first clinical domestic animal case of West Nile virus (WNV) infection during 2002. The two-year-old horse from Canterbury presented on Sept. 20 with a lack of appetite, depression
Visitors to Pennsylvania’s West Nile virus website—https://www.WestNile.state.pa.us —now can get weekly updates on the statewide mosquito surveillance”H3>PA West Nile Virus Web Site Expanded
Visitors to Pennsylvania’s West Nile virus website—PA West Nile Virus Web Si
Agriculture Secretary Art Brown Jr. said Tuesday (Sept. 5) that the death last week of a six-year-old Thoroughbred gelding in Tuckahoe, Cape May County, has been attributed to infection with the West Nile virus (WNV), in
Euthanized Horse from Staten Island Tests Positive for West Nile
New York State Agriculture Commissioner Nathan L. Rudgers announced August 29 the death of a 26-year old horse on
The Department of Environmental Management announced Monday the first finding of West Nile Virus in Rhode Island.
The positive result came from a horse stabled on Saugatucket Road in Wakefield that was
West Nile encephalitis virus caused an outbreak and deaths in humans and horses in the northeastern United States in the late summer and early fall of 1999. Recent isolations of the virus from adult mosquitoes and a dead bird in New York state
There still have not been any confirmed U.S. equine West Nile Virus cases in 2000. (August 24)
New York City Health Commissioner Neal L.
The James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health will convene a panel discussion on West Nile Virus, March 6 at Tel-A-Race, Hauppauge, Long Island. The discussion will begin at 7:30 p.m. Hosted by Walter Maclyn Conlon, President and CEO of Suffolk
There still have not been any confirmed U.S. equine West Nile Virus cases in 2000. (August 17)
Yesterday, the State of Connecticut
The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) announced Sunday, August 13, that West Nile Virus has been found in a dead crow. The bird was collected in Warwick on August 8 and was tested at the University of Rhode Island’s
Today (August 16) it was announced that the New York State Department of Health confirmed yesterday that blood samples obtained from five live wild birds collected in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn have tested positive for West Nile virus. Blood
New York City Health Commission announced Saturday, August 12, that a 64 year-old woman and a 63 year-old man, both residents of Staten Island, tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV) at the New York City Department of Health’s laboratories.
New York City Health Commissioner Neal L. Cohen, M.D., announced Friday, August 4, that a 78 year-old Staten Island man has tested laboratory-positive for West Nile virus. Serum and spinal fluid samples from the patient were received by the New
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is recommending that animal owners take several precautions to protect their animals from West Nile virus.
Given that mosquitoes were associated with the 1999 outbreak, the key to preventing or”P>The U.S. Department of Agriculture is recommending that animal owners take several p
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