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Updates on current disease outbreaks are listed here as they occur and will include the date listed, disease name, location and current status. Specific premises will not be named but the general location by town, county and state will be listed. When locations, events or horses are at risk they will be listed. Updates will be posted as they are received.



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Marion and Alachua Counties, FL
Alert ID: 202
May 02, 2016
On April 29 and May 2, one premises in Marion and Alachua Counties respectively were placed under quarantine for strangles. Neither facility reported any animal movement in the previous 21 days. One facility has 2 of 9 horses on the property with clinical symptoms and the other facility had 1 of 5 horses clinical at time of quarantine. This is the second reported case of strangles in Marion County, the second in Alachua County and the 15 and 16 cases in Florida since the beginning of 2016.