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INTERNATIONAL COLLATING CENTRE


    Animal Health Trust
    Information Exchange on Infectious Equine Disease
    Lanwades Park, Kentford, Newmarket, Suffolk CB8 7UU, England
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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 – August 2011 #3 (12.08.11)

UNITED KINGDOM 
Equine Influenza
On 11th August 2011 the Animal Health Trust confirmed equine influenza in a pony in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. Diagnosis was made on the basis of  a positive result on nucleoprotein antigen ELISA on a nasopharyngeal swab taken from a non-vaccinated 9-year-old pony mare that had had signs of pyrexia, coughing and mucopurulent nasal discharge for 2 days before being sampled. The affected pony is a single animal on a private premise that had been very recently acquired from a dealer’s yard.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis (EEE)  
One case of EEE was diagnosed in a horse on a premises in North Louisiana, bringing that state’s total for the year to three cases and the national total to six cases.

West Nile Virus Encephalitis (WNE)
One case of WNE was diagnosed in a horse in the mid-section of California, bringing the current national total to six for the year to date. 

 

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International Collating Centre