This is an excerpt from Equine Disease Quarterly, funded by underwriters at Lloyd’s, London, brokers, and their Kentucky agents.

The International Collating Centre, Newmarket, England, and other sources reported the following disease outbreaks:

Contagious Equine Metritis was confirmed in one non-Thoroughbred stallion (Franches-Montagne) at the National Stud in Switzerland. Continuing the 2006 last quarter report concerning isolation of Taylorella equigenitalis from imported Lipizzaner stallions in Wisconsin, the USDA confirmed that the stallions, after completing two series of antibiotic treatments, cultured negative for the organism. In addition, each stallion was bred to two test mares, which also tested negative for the organism. The stallions were released from quarantine on March 7, 2007.

Cases of respiratory disease caused by equine herpesvirus (EHV) were widely reported from a variety of horse breeds in France. Horses among the Thoroughbred racing population at Sha Tin racecourse, Hong Kong, displayed fever (ranging from 101° to 103° F), which was confirmed as caused by EHV-1. Over 100 horses were affected during a period of 60 days, representing 12% of the racing population. EHV-1 was diagnosed as the cause of death in a donkey that died in the United Kingdom with severe tracheitis