{"id":5081,"date":"2011-08-13T04:16:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5081"},"modified":"2011-08-13T04:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:16:09","slug":"horse-owners-warned-as-encephalitis-kills-2-alpacas-in-northwest-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horse-owners-warned-as-encephalitis-kills-2-alpacas-in-northwest-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse owners warned as encephalitis kills 2 alpacas in northwest Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">State veterinary officials are warning horse owners to get their animals vaccinated after a deadly virus carried by mosquitoes killed two alpacas and sickened a horse\u00a0in Dunn County in northwest Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, was confirmed on Tuesday after blood samples were taken from the diseased animals in early July.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The virus can be transmitted by mosquitoes to horses, birds, humans, and other animals, such as alpacas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">EEE is not transmitted between animals or from an animal to a human, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">EEE has no cure and a 90 percent mortality rate.\u00a0<a href=\" http:\/\/host.madison.com\/ct\/news\/local\/article_d1f3d73c-c35d-11e0-9180-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1UqrIOvUv\" target=\"_blank\">Read more:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State veterinary officials are warning horse owners to get their animals vaccinated after a deadly virus carried by mosquitoes killed two alpacas and sickened a horse\u00a0in Dunn County in northwest Wisconsin. The virus, Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, was confirmed on Tuesday after blood samples were taken from the diseased animals in early July. The [&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-5081","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\/5081","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=5081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5081\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}