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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 – December 2011 #6 (22.12.11)

UNITED KINGDOM

Equine Influenza
On 22nd December 2011, the Animal Health Trust confirmed a case of equine influenza in Cheshire, UK. The affected animal was an un-vaccinated three-year-old Thoroughbred gelding who showed clinical signs of pyrexia, cough, inappetance and nasal discharge. The horse started to show clinical signs on arriving at a new yard three days previously. The diagnosis was made on the basis of a positive nucleoprotein antigen ELISA result for a nasopharyngeal swab. A foal on the same yard is showing similar clinical signs.

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International Collating Centre