Equine Disease “Outbreak Alert” Text and Email Warning System Launched for...
Beginning June 1, 2011, horse owners and veterinarians in the United States can sign up to join Merial's automated program that will issue text or email alerts when equine disease outbreaks occur.
View ArticleIsolated Equine Herpes Virus in Wyoming: Original Cutting Horse Outbreak...
As the much-publicized outbreak of equine herpes virus (EHV) in western states winds down, isolated cases of the disease are still being rumored and reported. Montana, Wyoming and Washington are the...
View ArticleGlanders in Europe: What You Don’t Know About This Disease Might Kill You...
A surprising news announcement from Switzerland reveals that a horse in that country has tested positive for glanders, a zoonosis that hasn't been seen in that country since 1937. Glanders is dangerous...
View ArticleEquine Herpes Virus (EHV) Returns to California: One Confirmed, Eight with...
Officials with the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Animal Health and Food Safety Services (AHFSS) are releasing updates on the status of a mare suffering from equine herpes virus...
View ArticleHorse Health Alert: EHV-Positive Mare Isolated in North Carolina; Neurologic...
The unusually warm weather in November and December in many states this year has meant that we haven't had our usual outbreaks of equine herpes virus. Until today, that is, when a case testing positive...
View ArticleCalifornia EHV Case Count Rises to Eight; All Cases at Same Location
The California Department of Food and Agriculture published an update today a group of horses at a single location in Orange County (south of Los Angeles); so far eight horses there have tested...
View ArticleEHV in California’s Orange County: Virus Isolated to Single Equestrian Center
An overview of an outbreak of equine herpes virus (EHV) at an equestrian center in Orange County, south of Los Angeles, California seems to be contained to a single equestrian center. There are lessons...
View ArticleCalifornia Update: HITS Thermal “Safe to Show” With EHV Precautions After...
Horse show officials at one of the United States' largest horse shows have been reassured by state veterinarians that their exhibitors are "safe to show". HITS Thermal in southern California is 17...
View ArticleHITS Ocala: Show Goes On, and So Does EHV Quarantine; Vet Seminar Planned for...
The experience of state officials and veterinarians in Florida seems to be paying off in the successful containment to date of a possible outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus (strain EHV-1) at the large...
View ArticleEHV Coast to Coast: Filly Euthanized at California’s Santa Anita Racetrack...
When a young racehorse died at California's Santa Anita racetrack this week, her death completed a chain of Equine Herpes Virus cases that stretches from coast to coast and from the north to the south....
View ArticleCan We Predict, Prevent and Minimize Equine Influenza Outbreaks?
British researcher Janet Daly of the University of Nottingham in Great Britain reviews past outbreaks of equine influenza and predicts how and if currently available vaccines will protect our horses if...
View ArticleEHV-1 Quarantine on Boarding Farm in North Carolina as Horses Test Positive...
The North Carolina State Veterinarian issued a statement on December 30 announcing the quarantine of a horse farm in the central part of that state. Horses on the farm tested positive for EHV-1, the...
View ArticleNo News Is Good News: State Vet Office and Slovis Confirm that Kentucky Horse...
The state veterinarian's office in Kentucky and the Hagyard Equine Medical Institute have issued statements confirming the absence of any active equine disease outbreaks in that state. Text from both...
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