{"id":5617,"date":"2012-05-23T01:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5617"},"modified":"2019-03-21T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:13:51","slug":"border-patrol-confiscates-14-horses-with-emerging-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/border-patrol-confiscates-14-horses-with-emerging-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Patrol confiscates 14 horses with emerging disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presidio, Texas &#8211; 10 adult horses and four yearlings seized by Border Patrol agents south of El Paso and tested in Presidio have tested positive for Equine Piroplasmosis (EP).<\/p>\n<p>While common in Mexico and other countries, the blood borne disease that can be fatal to horses is not considered to be an epidemic in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It can lead to major constraints to interstate and international movements if left undetected, according to the Texas Animal Health Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The USDA and TAHC is still investigating the source of these horses and the possible detention. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs7kosa.com\/news\/details.asp?ID=34776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidio, Texas &#8211; 10 adult horses and four yearlings seized by Border Patrol agents south of El Paso and tested in Presidio have tested positive for Equine Piroplasmosis (EP).<\/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":[705,706,703,572,704,702,220,349,219,162],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-industry","tag-blood-borne-disease","tag-dr-grant-wease","tag-el-paso","tag-equine-piroplasmosis","tag-mexico","tag-presidio","tag-tahc","tag-texas","tag-texas-animal-health-commission","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617","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=5617"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8612,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5617\/revisions\/8612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}