Foreign Disease Equine Piroplasmosis Found in Five Florida Horses

by: Erin Ryder, TheHorse.com News Editor
August 20 2008, Article # 12544 Equine piroplasmosis was eradicated officially from Florida (and, thereby, the United States) in 1988. So it came as a shock to many people in the equine industry to hear that a horse in Florida was confirmed positive for the disease last week. Now animal health officials are working to trace the source of this disease flare-up and contain it. According to Mike Short, DVM, equine programs manager for Florida's Division of Animal Industry, one ...