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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
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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 #8 (29.11.11)

FRANCE

Equine Influenza 
On 28th November 2011 Réseau d’Epidémio-Surveillance en Pathologie Equine (RESPE) reported a case of equine influenza in one horse in Sarthe, France. Equine influenza virus infection was confirmed by PCR by the Frank Duncombe Laboratory on a nasopharyngeal swab sample taken from a 16-year-old male Percheron with signs of  fever that commenced on 25th November 2011. Further work is in progress to characterise the strain of equine influenza virus involved in the outbreak.

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International Collating Centre