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Strangles
Millard County, UT
Alert ID: 1496
October 28, 2019

Bureau of Land Management

Notes: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Fillmore Field Office and the Delta Wild Horse and Burro Facility have postponed the scheduled Nov. 1 adoption due to an upper respiratory disease in some of the horses at the facility. The BLM tested individual animals and the diagnosis indicates Strep Equi (Streptococcus equi) or “strangles.” The BLM has temporarily quarantined the animals from leaving the facility until determining that the disease has run its course and the horses are no longer showing clinical signs of disease. BLM officials have notified the Utah Department of Agriculture and Utah State Veterinarian of the outbreak. The BLM coordinated testing of the infected animals with the Utah Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. The Delta facility staff began seeing signs of strangles on October 16 within recently gathered horses, and younger animals. No mortality has occurred from the localized outbreak, only clinical signs are being observed at this time. These horses were all newly captured, they had received their primary immunizations including strangles but had not yet been boostered. The quarantine will delay the adoption of the highly sought after Onaqui wild horses that were scheduled for adoption on November 1. The BLM has tentatively moved the adoption date to sometime in January 2020. ;
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