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Strangles

Columbia county, FL

Alert ID: 42

May 27, 2015

May 27, 2015--A new premise in Columbia County, Florida has been confirmed with strangles. Currently one out of the five horses on the property is symptomatic. No horses came onto or left the property for 14 days prior to onset of symptoms which began May 20th. The disease was confirmed by PCR and culture on May 27th. The neighbors of the confirmed premises received a new horse about two weeks prior and they share a common fence. The neighbor has 4 horses on their property and all are a symptomatic and non-febrile at this time. This is the first confirmed case in Columbia County and the 15 incident for Florida since the beginning of the year.

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