{"id":7536,"date":"2017-08-21T12:17:32","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2019-03-20T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:33:05","slug":"west-nile-virus-confirmed-in-kansas-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/west-nile-virus-confirmed-in-kansas-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"WEST NILE VIRUS CONFIRMED IN KANSAS HORSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MANHATTAN, Kan. \u2014\u00a0The Kansas Department of Agriculture Division of Animal Health (KDA\u2013DAH) was notified in August by the Kansas State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory that a horse in Reno County has tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV). The horse was euthanized due to the severity of the illness. This is the first reported equine case of WNV in Kansas in 2017. Horse owners are encouraged to vaccinate their horses to prevent the spread of WNV.<\/p>\n<p>To read the rest of the story <a title=\"Rest of the story\" href=\"http:\/\/kticradio.com\/agricultural\/west-nile-virus-confirmed-in-kansas-horse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Nile virus is the most common mosquito-borne disease in Kansas and in the United States. It\u00a0causes severe neurological disease in horses. <\/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":[840,839,357,358],"class_list":["post-7536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disease-outbrake","category-equinews","category-industry","tag-kansas","tag-the-kansas-department-of-agriculture-division-of-animal-health","tag-west-nile-virus","tag-wnv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536","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=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8142,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions\/8142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}