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Strangles

Palm Beach County, FL

Alert ID: 782

January 02, 2018

Source: Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

On January 2^nd, 2018, one premise in Palm Beach County, Florida was placed under quarantine for clinical signs and positive PCR and culture confirmation of Strangles. The index case became clinical on December 26^th. The clinical horse was obtained from a feedlot in Louisiana approximately 5 weeks ago and then underwent a 1 week quarantine in South Carolina immediately before arriving in Florida. This is the 6^thStrangles quarantine in Palm Beach County and the 42^nd in the state of Florida for 2017.

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