The guidelines make new recommendations for core and risk-based vaccines for horses. The committee further emphasizes that routine vaccinations are considered essential during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As African horse sickness (AHS) continues to spread across Thailand, horse owners seek vaccines and Cambodia works to protect horses on its Thai border.
Two new suspect premises have also been identified in New Mexico.
Three horses at a King County boarding facility are now confirmed positive for the neurologic form of equine herpesvirus.
The cases mark the first New Jersey serotype VSV confirmed in the United States since 2015 and the first mixed outbreak since 1998.
Seven premises in three counties in the state are now affected.
The Cochise County horse marks Arizona’s first confirmed case of vesicular stomatitis virus for 2020.
Horses are confined to netted stalls to protect them from the midges that spread African horse sickness and to prevent potential spread from the new vaccine.
State animal health authorities have confirmed a King County horse with the neurologic form of equine herpesvirus-1. The horse’s boarding farm is currently under quarantine.
The affected horse has met testing requirements, and no additional horses were infected.
Officials quarantined premises in adjoining Dona Ana and Sierra counties.
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) hosted a global webcast as humans—facing a health crisis of their own due to COVID-19—try to protect horses and prevent the spread of AHS during the disease’s current outbreak in Thailand.
The African horse sickness (AHS) outbreak in Thailand has nearly quadrupled in a little more than a week, reaching 154 deaths and a fatality rate of 94% in horses showing clinical signs.
Definitively identified by Thai veterinarians on March 27, this represents the first outbreak of AHS outside the African continent in more than 30 years.
Get tips for keeping disease-spreading ticks off your horse from Dr. Erika Machtinger of Pennsylvania State University.
Ticks can infect horses with an array of diseases including piroplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, and Lyme disease.
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