Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M “African horse sickness is not in the U.S., and it is important it stays that way…” Texas A&M AgriLife faculty, various state and federal agencies and the U.S. horse industry are already monitoring the situation, ensuring surveillance and determining practices to prevent the deadly horse […]
By Ewan Macaulay as published on the Northumberland Gazette Pandemics occur in all species, with a variety of different diseases: in Thailand, there has been another disease outbreak – but this one is in the equine world. The African Horse Sickness virus has been causing havoc amongst the […]
By Christa Lesté-Lasserre as published on ScienceMag.org Thailand, already battling the spread of coronavirus, is now contending with another deadly viral outbreak—in horses. With hundreds of horse deaths reported there in the last 3 weeks, horse owners are rushing to seal their animals indoors with netting, away from […]
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