
African Horse Sickness Update
With mortality rates topping 90%, AHS has left a devastating wake of destruction across Thailand and Malaysia. Learn about this disease, the recent outbreak, and what it could mean for U.S. horse owners.
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With mortality rates topping 90%, AHS has left a devastating wake of destruction across Thailand and Malaysia. Learn about this disease, the recent outbreak, and what it could mean for U.S. horse owners.

Ten additional horses at the Clackamas County boarding facility were exposed.

No link has been established between this case and outbreaks in Europe and Florida.

Northumberland and Durham counties are now affected.

Slow feeders and haynets offer many benefits for horses, such as metered forage intake, but can also create safety issues. Here are solutions to common challenges.

The Larimer County premises is under official quarantine.

The horses from separate premises recently traveled together to an event in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Officials have cleared Blackwood’s training barn A.

The fungal disease, found in Africa, the Middle East, Russia, and Asia, causes significant illness and progressive debility in affected equids.

In the wake of EHV at Pimlico, approval is needed to move horses onto Kentucky tracks.
The horse’s boarding facility has been placed under voluntary quarantine.

Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food has enacted a voluntary quarantine on the facility.

Texas animal health staff, owners, and local veterinarians are working together to implement biosecurity protocols and monitor potentially exposed horses.

No further cases were reported at the Santa Clara County premises within 14 days.

All six affected horses survived the potentially deadly virus.

Pimlico and Laurel Park have suspended racing to mitigate EHV cases.
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