INTERNATIONAL THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS' FEDERATION 

INTERNATIONAL COLLATING CENTRE

Animal Health Trust
Information Exchange on Infectious Equine Disease
Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 7UU, England
Telephone: + 44 (0) 1638 555399
Fax: + 44 (0) 1638 555659
Website: http://www.aht.org.uk/icc/linksicc.html

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PLEASE CONTACT RICHARD NEWTON OR MAIRE O'BRIEN ON THE ABOVE NUMBER, OR E-MAIL
maire.obrien@aht.org.uk  TO SUBMIT REPORTING INFORMATION

Interim Report – October 2017 #7 (11.10.17)

USA
West Nile Encephalitis (WNE)
Cases of WNE have been reported by two states, New York and Idaho. The disease was diagnosed in four horses in New York, two in St. Lawrence County and one each in Cayuga and Erie Counties. One of the horses in St. Lawrence County had not been vaccinated but is still alive. The remaining three horses have been euthanased, of which two had also not been vaccinated and one had been vaccinated but very shortly before falling ill.
The Idaho Department of Agriculture confirmed WNE in a one-year-old Quarter Horse with no history of vaccination. The affected animal was located in Kootenai County. The horse presented with signs of facial nerve deficit progressing to ataxia involving all four limbs. It is responding to treatment.

Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis (EEE)
A case of EEE was confirmed in a horse in Oswego County, New York. The horse had to be euthanased.

 

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