The Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington is closed and has been placed under a voluntary quarantine following the admission of a cutting horse that had been at an event in Utah last weekend. Upon examinati…
Horse deaths this week in California and Colorado have been linked to suspected exposure to the neurologic form of Equine Herpes Virus at a cutting horse event over Mother’s Day weekend in Utah. Animal health officials in at least three states are inve…
A second farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey has been quarantined by state officials as part of an effort to protect horses in the state from an outbreak of the neurological form of Equine Herpes Virus, Type One.
Say "equine piroplasmosis" to a horse owner and trainer and what response will you get back? "That’s a warm weather disease, right?" "Ticks." "Isn’t it from South America or the Caribbean or Mexico or someplace like that?" "It’s usually in the Southwest, right?" "That disease affects Spanish-type horses, and Quarter horses, I think?"
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Late Tuesday afternoon, officials in New York State confirmed by phone that a stable at Finger Lakes Racetrack in the western part of the state has been placed under quarantine after a horse that had been stabled there was diagnosed with Equine Herpes…
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When it comes to the international transport of horses, you’d better read the fine print.
And then you’d better read it again. And have everyone in a position to second-guess you …