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Well-Known Member
UPDATE BRIEFING NOTE ON THE CURRENT
EIA SITUATION IN IRELAND
Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA)
Update 1 February 2007
The Department has confirmed twenty-eight cases of Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA), the most recent on 10 December 2006. Most of the cases were concentrated, with some exceptions, in the Meath/Kildare/Dublin area. All but three of the cases confirmed were in thoroughbred horses.
It is now 53 days since the most recent case, significantly longer than any interval between any two previous cases. Since September 2006, the intervals between cases have lengthened with intervals of 27, 20 and 25 days, respectively, being recorded in the four previous cases.
The most recent case was confirmed in a horse which had been blood sampled as part of a targeted surveillance programme in Co Meath. That programme, involving the testing of over 8200 horses in Counties Meath, Dublin and Kildare, has now been completed with no further cases being identified since 10 December, despite the thousands of tests undertaken.
A thorough investigation has been carried out in relation to all of the cases and, at this stage, the Department is satisfied, based on the significant epidemiological data gathered, that all of the cases can now be associated back to events related directly or indirectly to the initial outbreak and is further satisfied that there are veterinary treatment linkages in a number of these cases.
EIA SITUATION IN IRELAND
Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA)
Update 1 February 2007
The Department has confirmed twenty-eight cases of Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA), the most recent on 10 December 2006. Most of the cases were concentrated, with some exceptions, in the Meath/Kildare/Dublin area. All but three of the cases confirmed were in thoroughbred horses.
It is now 53 days since the most recent case, significantly longer than any interval between any two previous cases. Since September 2006, the intervals between cases have lengthened with intervals of 27, 20 and 25 days, respectively, being recorded in the four previous cases.
The most recent case was confirmed in a horse which had been blood sampled as part of a targeted surveillance programme in Co Meath. That programme, involving the testing of over 8200 horses in Counties Meath, Dublin and Kildare, has now been completed with no further cases being identified since 10 December, despite the thousands of tests undertaken.
A thorough investigation has been carried out in relation to all of the cases and, at this stage, the Department is satisfied, based on the significant epidemiological data gathered, that all of the cases can now be associated back to events related directly or indirectly to the initial outbreak and is further satisfied that there are veterinary treatment linkages in a number of these cases.
