Argentina recognizes the presence of a strange livestock disease: Surra sickened two horses in a Santa Fe field

The health authorities of Argentina informed the international community, several months late, about the re-entry into the country of a disease that is supposed to have been eradicated in 2008. It is the "Surra" or Trypanosoma evansi, a parasite that lodges within certain animal species including cattle and horses, and can cause their death. In the report sent by the Senasa to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the government acknowledged that the parasite was detected on June 21 in a field that had 47 cattle and 41 horses in the Arroyo Aguiar area, in the province of Santa Fe. Among them, the infection was confirmed in at least two horses, according to the health agency itself. The 88 animals involved in that establishment were placed under immediate quarantine, according to the official report sent to the OIE, which concludes that outbreak as of September 12. In fact, the episode marks the re-entry into the country of a disease that had been eradicated since ...