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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 2011 #5 (14.10.11)
UNITED KINGDOM 

Equine Influenza
On 14th October 2011 the Animal Health Trust confirmed equine influenza in a horse in East Sussex, England. Diagnosis was made on the basis of  a positive result on nucleoprotein antigen ELISA on a nasopharyngeal swab taken from an unvaccinated four-year-old gelding with signs of harsh cough, mucoid nasal discharge and mild malaise. The affected horse had been imported from Ireland approximately one week previously and had come over onto the same premises with one other horse that was also showing clinical signs consistent with influenza virus infection. The two clinically affected new horses have been isolated and all the other horse on the premises which are fully vaccinated are being monitored for any clinical signs.

 Regards
International Collating Centre