Two horses in the Penn Valley area of Nevada County tested positive for the highly contagious equine coronavirus, officials said.
The virus is not contagious to people, but it is easily transmitted to other horses through equine fecal matter and saliva, said Daniel Chatigny, interim agricultural commissioner for Nevada County.
“If the horse is eating fecal matter of another horse (who has the virus), it can be transmitted that way,” Chatigny said. If a horse licks a person’s hand, and that person touches another horse, it can get transmitted that way, Chatigny added.
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