Chile reports cases of equine infectious anemia, agriculture and animal husbandry bureau calls for heightened vigilance

Published 2025년 1월 8일

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Chile's Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau is implementing strict measures to control an outbreak of equine anemia, a disease that cannot be cured and poses a severe threat to horses. The measures include quarantining horse farms, slaughtering infected horses, and conducting investigations to contain the spread of the disease. The bureau is also advising horse breeders to adopt biosafety measures and report any symptoms in horses to the bureau. The disease, transmitted through insect bites or contaminated items, has recently spread to Chile from neighboring countries.
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Chile's El País reported on the 3rd that the actions taken by the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau include: comprehensive quarantine of horse farms (prohibiting horses from entering and leaving), slaughtering horses with positive reactions, conducting clinical and serological monitoring of other horses, and launching epidemiological investigations to determine the route of the epidemic into the horse farms. Recently, equine anemia has been prevalent in countries neighboring Chile. Last October, an epidemic of equine anemia was discovered at the Santiago Equestrian Club (Club Hípico de Santiago), when 16 horses tested positive. To this end, the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau took strict quarantine measures on the affected sites, and after more than five months of efforts, the epidemic was eradicated. In order to avoid new cases and restore the status of a country free of equine anemia certified by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the Agriculture and ...
Source: Foodmate

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