{"id":14355,"date":"2019-03-10T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=14355"},"modified":"2019-03-10T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T14:49:47","slug":"equine-influenza-detected-in-tennessee-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2019\/03\/10\/equine-influenza-detected-in-tennessee-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Equine Influenza Detected in Tennessee Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tennessee Department of Agriculture<\/h2>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-407377\" title=\"Tennessee Department of Agriculture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Tennessee-Department-of-Agriculture.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Department of Agriculture\" width=\"250\" height=\"101\">Nashville, TN <\/strong>&#8211; The State Veterinarian has announced that several horses returning from out-of-state events have been sickened by equine influenza virus (EIV) in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Equine influenza is highly contagious, and the virus is spread by contaminated stable equipment and infected, coughing horses.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_446434\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Equine-Influenza-Detected-in-Tennessee-Horses.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-446434\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-446434\" title=\"Equine Influenza Detected in Tennessee Horses\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Equine-Influenza-Detected-in-Tennessee-Horses-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Equine Influenza Detected in Tennessee Horses\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-446434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Equine Influenza Detected in Tennessee Horses<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Symptoms in horses may include fever, nasal discharge, cough, loss of appetite, and weakness. Sick horses cannot directly infect people with EIV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith EIV, it is much easier for horse owners to take preventive measures than to provide treatment,\u201d Interim State Veterinarian Dr. Doug Balthaser said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaintaining hygiene procedures with stable equipment and vaccinating your horses is a great start for prevention efforts. Your veterinarian can help you decide the best vaccination plan for your horse,\u201d stated Balthaser.<\/p>\n<h3>Other tips include:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Isolate newly introduced horses or horses returning from events for two weeks.<\/li>\n<li>For events or stables, restrict entry to healthy horses only.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t share equipment or supplies between horses, especially if one spikes a fever, has nasal discharge, or is coughing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The C. E. Kord Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory now offers a full line of equine disease testing, including WNV, equine infectious anemia (EIA), equine herpes virus (EHV), equine protozoal myeloencephalitis&nbsp;(EPM), eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), and equine influenza virus (EIV). Contact your veterinarian for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Department of Agriculture Nashville, TN &#8211; The State Veterinarian has announced that several horses returning from out-of-state events have been sickened by equine influenza virus (EIV) in Tennessee. Equine influenza is highly contagious, and the virus is spread by contaminated stable equipment and infected, coughing horses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[12345,6164,284,261,12344],"class_list":["post-14355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-equine-influenza","tag-horses","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14356,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355\/revisions\/14356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}