Published Date: 2012-08-08 08:58:07
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Equine infectious anemia - Germany: (RP)
Archive Number: 20120808.1234201
EQUINE INFECTIOUS ANEMIA - GERMANY: (RHINELAND-PALATINATE)
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Date: Wed 8 Aug 2012
Source: Rhineland-Palatinate State Agency for Consumer and Health Protection press release [in German, trans. & summ. SZ, edited]
http://lua.rlp.de/einzelansicht/archive/2012/august/article/infektioese-anaemie-bei-pferden-rheinland-pfalz-erneut-betroffen/
A case of equine infectious anemia (EIA) has been confirmed in a 2-month-old foal from Rhineland-Palatinate. All equines from the holding and surrounding farms tested negative for the virus, including the mother of the foal.
Investigations are underway to establish how the foal became infected. It was born on the holding but had been transported earlier to a horse clinic in North Rhine-Westphalia twice for conditions that are not related to EIA.
Tracing of contact horses is under way.
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Communicated by:
Sabine Zentis
Castleview Pedigree English Longhorns
Gut Laach
52385 Nideggen
Germany
<cvlonghorns@aol.com>
[EIA recurred in Germany in September 2006, after its absence since June 2002. The number of reported outbreaks (infected sites) since 2006, as reported to the OIE, was as follows:
2006 - 7; 2007 - 2; 2008 - 10; 2009 - 4; 2010 - 27; 2011 - 5.
The countrywide spread of EIA during 2010-2011, shared with other EU member countries, was attributed to introduction of infected horses from Romania. Results of the epidemiological investigation of the current outbreak are anticipated.
EIA is not zoonotic. For an updated review, see http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/equine_infectious_anemia.pdf. - Mod.AS
A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map can be accessed at: http://healthmap.org/r/1GBu.]
See Also
2011----
Equine infectious anemia - Germany: (TH) OIE 20111215.3601
2010
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Equine infectious anemia - Germany (04): (BY) 20100921.3412
Equine infectious anemia - Germany (03): (HE) ex Romania 20100908.3232
Equine infectious anemia - Germany (02): (HE) OIE 20100904.3180
2009
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Equine infectious anemia - Germany: OIE 20091208.4189
2008
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Equine infectious anemia - Germany (NRW) 20080925.3038
2006
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Equine infectious anemia - Germany: OIE 20060930.2800
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