Other Animal Disease -- United States
A private racehorse-training facility in southern New Mexico is under quarantine after a single horse there was confirmed to have a parasitic disease.
The New Mexico Livestock Board imposed the quarantine -- no horses in, no horses out -- at Jovi Training Stables late [Fri 18 Mar 2016] after one horse there was confirmed to have equine piroplasmosis (EP). EP is a bloodborne disease transmitted by ticks, or mechanically, via improperly sanitized syringes and the like. Mild forms of EP can
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/21D6Ecv
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