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    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 – November 2011 #4 (18.11.11)

UNITED KINGDOM 
Equine Herpes Virus-1 Neurological Disease
On 18th Novermber 2011 the Animal Health Trust confirmed Equine Herpes Virus-1 (EHV-1) in two horses in the West of England. Diagnosis was made on the basis of virus isolation and/or PCR on nasopharyngeal swabs and on heparinised blood samples collected from two clinically affected horses. Both of the affected horses were sports horse mares with foals at foot. One of the affected mares was euthanased after becoming recumbent and the second horse showed signs of ataxia. The premises has been isolated and further testing is currently being carried out.

FRANCE
Equine Influenza 
On 18th November 2011 Réseau d’Epidémio-Surveillance en Pathologie Equine (RESPE) reported an outbreak of equine influenza with 4 out of 25 animals affected at a training centre in Val-de-Marne, France. Equine influenza virus infection was confirmed by PCR on a nasopharyngeal swab in a vaccinated four-year-old, French Trotter mare with signs of coughing, nasal discharge and fever. Further work is in progress to characterise the strain of equine influenza virus involved in the outbreak. It is not clear whether this case is on the same premises as that reported for the same region on 16th November 2011.

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International Collating Centre