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International Breeders' Meeting

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 – August 2011 #5 (17.08.11)

UNITED KINGDOM

Equine Influenza
On 17th August 2011 the Animal Health Trust confirmed equine influenza in a horse in Surrey, England. Diagnosis was made on the basis of a positive result on nucleoprotein antigen ELISA on a nasopharyngeal swab taken from a 7-year-old Cob gelding of unknown vaccination status that had signs of pyrexia, coughing and mucopurulent nasal discharge for several days before being sampled. The affected animal was on a livery yard on which another horse had developed similar clinical signs within 48 hours of arrival from a dealer’s yard. Several others horses on the yard have since been reported with clinical signs.
Further to the report of 12th August of equine influenza in a pony in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, the equine influenza virus responsible has been preliminarily characterised as an H3N8 clade 2 Florida sublineage virus.

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International Collating Centre