Monday, 12 December 2016

PRO/AH/EDR> Equine viral arteritis: genetic vulnerability

Other Animal Disease -- Worldwide/Unknown
More than a century ago, a disease fitting the clinical description of what we now call EVA was reported in European veterinary literature. However, the virus was not isolated from horses in [the US] until 1953 during an epidemic of abortions and respiratory disease. The most recent EVA epidemic occurred in 1984 when this disease affected 41 thoroughbred breeding farms in Kentucky. This outbreak brought to light 2 very important findings about EVA: the efficiency with which an acutely infected

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