“Farms are isolated after the infective hästvirus”
“Two hästbesättningar in the Stockholm and Uppsala county has been isolated after the outbreak of a contagious viral disease. From a riding school which has now been forced to close down, you hear criticism that the samples took which may have exacerbated the situation.”
“the Disease equine herpes virus (EHV-1) affects only equidae. The symptoms include fever and swollen legs. In pregnant mares it can induce a miscarriage, which has made it often called virusabort.”
“Some of the horses that now have become ill have developed a more rare and serious neurological form of EHV-1, notifies the national Veterinary institute (SVA). In the worst cases, lead to paralysis and death. There is no medicine or vaccine, but isolation and good hygiene to prevent the spread of infection, type SVA in a press release.”
“One of the two affected plants is a horse riding school in Cork which has been forced to shut down. Liselotte Enström, chairman of the board of the riding school, is critical to the results took time.”
” We are extremely disappointed in how it was handled. We did not know that there was a smittrisk, had we known, had we been able to manage it better and perhaps had fewer sick horses, ” she says to SR P4 Stockholm.”
“Henrik Ericsson, director at the university animal hospital (Uppsala, recognizing that it took for a long time, eleven days, from that there was a positive test result until the school got the reply. He puts the blame on the human factor.”
