Kansas Officials Monitoring EIA-Affected Facility

The Finney County property where six horses tested positive for EIA remains under quarantine.
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The Kansas Department of Agriculture Division of Animal Health (KDA DAH) is continuing to monitor a facility in Finney County where six horses tested positive for equine infectious anemia (EIA) last week. The facility is under quarantine and the remaining horses at the facility will be observed and retested in 60 days.

An incurable infectious disease, EIA is caused by a virus that can affect horses, donkeys, asses, and other equids. This virus destroys red blood cells and is spread through blood-to-blood contact, not through close proximity or casual contact. Clinical signs of EIA include fever, anemia and edema; however, affected horses may not show symptoms. All infected horses, including those which are asymptomatic, are carriers of the disease.

The virus can be transmitted from an infected equid to a “clean” equid by biting flies, the use of unsterilized or contaminated medical instruments, or through a blood transfusion. This disease does not affect humans.

The KDA has identified a prescribed surveillance area within one-half mile of the affected premises, and is working with local officials and horse owners to identify any other horses that might have been within that surveillance area in order to test those animals

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