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Strangles
Kent County, DE
Outbreak Identifier: 4072
Alert ID: 1556
January 07, 2020
Confirmed Case(s) - Official Quarantine

Delaware Department of Agriculture

Number Confirmed: 1;
Notes: Update 1/7/2020: The Office of the State Veterinarian has lifted the quarantine of the Standardbred training facility in Kent County, Delaware effective January 7, 2020. Quarantine was initially placed on December 16, 2019 after a single horse tested positive by culture for S. equi. Quarantined contacts of the infected horse were released on January 6, 2020 after a 3-week quarantine with no clinical signs or new cases. The infected horse was released from quarantine January 7, 2020 after receipt of negative qPCR results on guttural pouch lavage fluid. ;
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