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St. Johns and Palm Beach Counties, FL
Alert ID: 149
February 09, 2016
On Feb 8th, Florida confirmed and quarantined two new premises for strangles. The first premise located in St John’s County had two horses, one clinical with travel history two weeks prior to the New Smyrna area. The second farm located in Palm Beach County has one of 80 horses displaying clinical signs. This horse came from Kentucky about 2 weeks prior and was immediately isolated upon onset of clinical signs. This is the first case for St. John’s County, the second for Palm Beach County and the third and fourth cases for Florida in 2016.