Day: March 9, 2018

Arizona Department of Agriculture Animal Services Division 1688 W. Adams Street, Phoenix AZ 85007 (602) 542 4293 March 5, 2018, Arizona Department of Agriculture (AZDA) Director Mark Killian ordered the quarantine of a cutting horse training facility in northern Maricopa County after a nasal swab on a gelding tested positive for Equine Herpes Virus-1 (EHV·1) “wild strain.• On Friday March 2, 2018, Dr. Peter Mundschenk, the Arizona State Veterinarian , received notification confirming the diagnoses of Equine Herpes Myeloencephalopathy (EHM) in a Quarter Horse gelding with a positive nasal swab of EHV·1. This horse has been at Southpoint