International Equine Disease Report, Third Quarter 2012

Diseases reported include contagious equine metritis, equine herpesvirus, piroplasmosis, and more.
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The International Collating Center, Newmarket, United Kingdom, and other sources reported the following disease outbreaks in the third quarter of 2012".

Contagious equine metritis was reported from Germany. Infection with the causal bacteria, Taylorella equigenitalis, was confirmed in non-Thoroughbreds: two stallions and three mares on one premises and a stallion on a second premises.

One case of equine coital exanthema (equine herpesvirus-3) was diagnosed in Kentucky.

Strangles was recorded in Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and the United States. Ten cases were reported from Ireland. Outbreaks involving 17 horses on two premises occurred in Switzerland. Single cases and outbreaks of strangles were reported from Maine, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania in the United States, where the disease is endemic

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