{"id":4800,"date":"2011-05-18T02:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T19:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2011-05-18T02:59:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T19:59:35","slug":"symptoms-equine-herpes-virus-found-in-idaho-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/symptoms-equine-herpes-virus-found-in-idaho-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Symptoms Equine Herpes Virus Found in Idaho Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Idaho State Department of Agriculture \u00a0is investigating what it&#8217;s calling &#8220;a suspected outbreak&#8221; of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1) within the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Horses may have been exposed to the severe neurological form of EHV-1 at the NCHA Western National Championships in Ogden, Utah held April 30-May 8, 2011. Confirmed and suspected cases of the disease have also been reported in Utah, Colorado and several other states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Two Idaho horses that traveled to the event have died and several others are currently under the care of veterinarians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">State Veterinarian, Dr. Bill Barton is recommending horse owners incorporate strict movement controls or containment methods to prevent the spread of the disease.\u00a0 &#8220;If you participated in this event, or have contact with horses that traveled to this event, you should notify your veterinarian and isolate and monitor these horses for a minimum of 21 days for clinical signs of the disease,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Equine Herpes Virus is highly contagious among horses. Llamas and alpacas can also be affected but the virus poses no health threat to humans. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kivitv.com\/story\/14654270\/symptoms-equine-herpes-virus-found-in-idaho-horses\" target=\"_blank\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idaho State Department of Agriculture \u00a0is investigating what it&#8217;s calling &#8220;a suspected outbreak&#8221; of Equine Herpes Virus (EHV-1) within the state. Horses may have been exposed to the severe neurological form of EHV-1 at the NCHA Western National Championships in Ogden, Utah held April 30-May 8, 2011. Confirmed and suspected cases of the disease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4802,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}