An amendment to the House appropriations bill designates funds from the Bureau of Land Management budget to use the PZP vaccine to manage wild horse and burro populations.
The Ohio Quarter Horse Association consulted with health officials prior to canceling the world’s largest single-breed show due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thirteen Oklahoma premises in seven counties remain under quarantine due to vesicular stomatitis.
Twenty-three premises in the state are currently quarantined due to vesicular stomatitis.
Nineteen Kansas counties now contain quarantined premises.
The Howard County facility has remained free of clinical signs and positive tests for more than 21 days.
Gage County currently contains the state’s only VSV-quarantined premises.
The Clay County horse was subsequently euthanized.
The Scott County mare is reportedly recovering after being treated for West Nile virus.
The ponies mark case numbers 13 and 14 for Florida in 2020. Both were euthanized.
An unvaccinated mare was euthanized after testing positive for Eastern equine encephalomyelitis. A weanling suspected of having the disease after showing clinical signs was also euthanized.
Kansas counties with vesicular stomatitis virus cases on newly identified premises include Allen, Cherokee, Coffey, Elk, Labette, Lyon, Miami, Neosho, and Wilson.
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The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services had confirmed EEE cases in Baker, Holmes, and Jackson counties.
The horses lived at the same Suffolk County farm.
The Eastern equine encephalomyelitis fatality rate in horses exceeds 90%. Horses act as sentinels for human risk.
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