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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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Strangles

Lake County, FL

Alert ID: 530

May 22, 2017

Source: Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

On May 20, 2017 one premise in Lake County, Florida was placed under quarantine for clinical signs and positive PCR for strangles. The index case became clinical on May 18, approximately three weeks after arriving from Bastrop, LA. No horses have left the premises since clinical signs began and the horse was properly isolated upon arrival. This the first case for Lake County and case 21 for Florida in 2017. To date in 2017, 16 of the 21 strangles cases have direct epidemiological links to the horses sold at the Bastrop, Louisiana facility and the individuals that distribute them throughout the country.

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