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.
Two weeks ago, this blog reported the closure of the Equine Hospital at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, New York after a foal died and later tested positive for Equine Herpes Virus. A gelding at the hospital also bec…
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 …