EIA (Equine Infectious Anemeia - Swamp Fever)

There is a link at the bottom of the blog, to amend the TPA and hopefully close some of the loopholes................Mind to work it would need port checks to enforce.:(
 
I expected random checks at Port of entry--enough to make people think they might be stopped.
So instead they follow home imports a month later--dealers would normally have them all over the country by then and one could arrive in your livery yard or the farm next door

Just not good enough
 
What did we learn from the Irish outbreak of EIA--how dangerous infected blood and blood products are.

http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=14554

''EIA virus is spread through body secretions such as blood. EIA can be transmitted via biting insects such as the deer fly and horse fly as well as from tainted tack, equipment, and veterinary supplies, and from mares to foals during pregnancy.


"The most important mode of transmission, however, is by humans," explained Charles Issel, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM from the Gluck Equine Research Center at the University of Kentucky. Issel assisted veterinarians at the affected hospital to analyze medical records and determine the exact nature of the outbreak.

"A single drop of blood from an infected horse carried by man is capable of infecting about 10,000 times as many horses compared to the blood on the mouthparts of a contaminated horse fly," Issel continued.''
 
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