The Kentucky Department of Agriculture has confirmed the presence of the organism responsible for causing strangles in a 3-year-old Thoroughbred filly at the Thoroughbred Training Center in Fayette County, Ky., according to an alert posted to the Equine Disease Communication Center's website and bloodhorse.com.
On April 15, the filly presented with a swollen lymph node without signs of an elevated temperature. On April 18, laboratory results confirmed the organism responsible for causing strangles. The filly, who was unvaccinated against the disease, remains alive and affected.
Subsequent testing has been done on 18 additional exposed horses with results pending. Results are expected late on April 19.
“At this point in time, it's not affecting any other barns at the facility,” Rusty Ford, equine operations consultant for the Office of the State Veterinarian at the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, told bloodhorse.com. “The good thing about this incident is the good separation from this barn from other barns and the fact that we had solid walls there. Again, we're in the infancy here, so it's going to be a changing dynamic every hour I imagine.”
The upper respiratory disease commonly referred to as strangles is caused by Streptococcus equi subsp equi. Strangles is spread from horse to horse through direct contact. Horses can also contract the disease by coming into contact with contaminated surfaces. The disease is highly infectious.
For more information go to: https://www.equinediseasecc.org/strangles.
Read more at bloodhorse.com.
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