Pennsylvania Horse Contracts Equine Influenza
Edited Press Release
August 13, 2020
A voluntary quarantine was enacted following the affected horse’s diagnosis.
A voluntary quarantine was enacted following the affected horse’s diagnosis.
The affected filly is reported as recovering from Eastern equine encephalomyelitis.
The affected horse is Horry County’s fourth and South Carolina’s eighth case this year.
No subsequent equine infectious anemia cases have been detected.
The state veterinarian cautions horse owners and citizens to take precautions against potential infection.
Officials seized an unspecified number of slaughter-bound horses that might not have been meant for human consumption.
Five horses in five counties are affected with the mosquito-borne neurologic disease.
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The case marks the state’s second equine case of West Nile virus in 2020. The Stanislaus County horse was unvaccinated.
The filly was euthanized due to the mosquito-borne zoonotic disease.
The filly had attended an Imperial County event on July 18-19. Officials have now placed that facility under quarantine.
The unvaccinated horse was subsequently euthanized.
All three were euthanized due to poor quality of life as a result of the neurologic disease.
The 2019 outbreak of VSV was the largest in recent history with 1,144 premises affected in eight states: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Nine of the state’s counties now contain confirmed positive premises. Cherokee, Osage, and Ottawa counties have new and suspect cases.
USDA/APHIS has announced four new confirmed positive and one new suspect premises.
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