Equine Herpes Virus -- United States
A farm in Clay County, in northwestern Minnesota, is now under quarantine for a 21-day period after a young quarter horse foal came down with a highly contagious disease and had to be euthanized.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health said Monday [29 Jul 2019] that post-mortem tests confirmed equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM) had infected the 6-week-old foal. The state has since put its EHM Control Plan into effect in the immediate area.
Six other horses on that farm near
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