Chile: SAG carried out mass sampling to detect contagious equine infectious anemia

The Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) carried out a large mass sampling this Saturday morning at the Santiago Equestrian Club, after the detection of an outbreak of equine infectious anemia (EIA) in 16 horses. With the presence of SAG officials from three regions of the country, Metropolitan, Valparaíso and O'Higgins, samples were taken from the entire equine population present in the facility in less than three hours, thanks to great coordinated work. There were approximately 1,800 horses that were examined, all distributed in 80 pens, which are quarantined on site with movement prohibited. The Service made an urgent call to horse owners throughout the country to take extreme basic biosafety measures, especially those that prevent transmission through blood, and to report to the Service if their animals show symptoms of the disease. , such as jaundice, tachycardia, ...