{"id":7508,"date":"2017-07-11T12:41:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7508"},"modified":"2019-03-23T22:40:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T04:40:58","slug":"horse-tests-positive-for-virginias-first-2017-case-of-west-nile-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/horse-tests-positive-for-virginias-first-2017-case-of-west-nile-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Horse tests positive for Virginia&#8217;s first 2017 case of West Nile Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"dateline\"><strong>WYTHE COUNTY, Va (WHSV) &#8212;<\/strong><\/span> The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">Services<\/span><\/span> (VDACS) today announced the state\u2019s first positive case of <a title=\"Articles on the site about West Nile Virus\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?tag=west-nile-virus\">West Nile Virus <\/a>(WNV) in a horse in 2017. It is the first case since August 2015 in Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>The horse, a ten-year-old Saddlebred gelding, was from Wythe County and died as a result of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms included loss of control of bodily movements and partial paralysis in the hind limbs, dazed appearance and lack of ability to stand.<\/p>\n<p>To read more of this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whsv.com\/content\/news\/Horse-tests-positive-for-states-first-2017-case-of-West-Nile-Virus-433670853.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horse, a ten-year-old Saddlebred gelding, was from Wythe County and died as a result of the disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,53,14],"tags":[833,831,357,358,832],"class_list":["post-7508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-equinews","category-industry","tag-national-veterinary-service-laboratories","tag-the-virginia-department-of-agriculture-and-consumer-services","tag-west-nile-virus","tag-wnv","tag-wythe-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508","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=7508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8830,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7508\/revisions\/8830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}