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West Nile Virus
Holmes County, OH
Alert ID: 1003
August 29, 2018

Ohio Department of Agriculture

The Ohio Department of Agriculture confirmed a case of West Nile Virus (WNV) in a 3-year old Standardbred mare in Holmes County. On August 18, 2018 the horse exhibited stiffness, lip droop, tremors and ataxia over a 5 day period and was unresponsive to medical therapy. The horse was euthanized on 8/22/18. After determining that brain tissue was negative for rabies, PCR assay at the Ohio ADDL detected WNV nucleic acid in brain stem tissue of this horse. The horse was not vaccinated against WNV. This is the second WNV positive horse from Holmes County and the fourth case in Ohio in 2018.
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