Fauquier County, Virginia, Training Facility Quarantined

The facility was quarantined after a horse previously residing there tested positive for EHV-1 in Florida.
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A Thoroughbred training facility in Fauquier County, Virginia, has been quarantined after a horse previously residing there tested positive for equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) in Florida.

On the evening of Feb. 29, the state veterinarian’s office at the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) received notification from the Florida state veterinarian’s office that a Virginia horse recently relocated to Martin County, Florida, had tested positive for EHV-1. The animal’s clinical signs were consistent with equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy (EHM, the neurologic form of EHV-1). The index horse was placed in isolation early in the day and the Florida facility was placed under quarantine.

An investigation revealed that the index horse was shipped from the Virginia Thoroughbred training facility to Florida on Feb. 22. As such, the VDACS placed that training facility has under quarantine, and all exposed horses are being monitored twice daily for fever (a temperature over 101.5$deg;F) and other clinical signs. To date, no exposed horses in Virginia have shown clinical signs of disease or been febrile, but the monitoring will continue throughout the quarantine period. In addition to the horses exposed at the training facility, the investigation has revealed only one other exposed horse that traveled out of state.

The index horse traveled from Virginia to Florida with additional horses that off-loaded in South Carolina. Potentially exposed horses in that state are currently being observed for signs of disease

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