Is there an actual current USEF rule on temp logs? I just see a rule change proposal.
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I thought it passed eff 1/1?
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Our horses got caught up in the EHV 1 outbreak in Spain last year, luckily they were diagnosed early and moved to a vet clinic where care was excellent. They didnāt get the floppy tail stage which is very serious, they were a 2 out of 5 but still very unwell with lack of coordination and high temps, dilated pupils, colic type symptoms. Worst week of my life. Plenty of temp manipulation going on at the show to get horses out before department shut it down, many left in the middle of the night before they could be stopped as word got round there were sick horses. I wouldnāt show there again as horses leave and come back with no testing and horses were allowed in from a show in Belgium where it was known a horse had to be put down from EHV 1. My number one advice would be never stable in the big barns, all the cases in that incident were in one barn of 200 horses. No cases in the outdoor stables.
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I did hear that the enforcement was pretty much shit in Spain.
Indoor barns have to be a concern, I never really thought about that in connection with the Ohio WEC outbreaks. It certainly makes you think hard about FL WEC, although they have a really top notch ventilation system, also itās not like a FL barn is closed up in the winter like a northern barn.
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I can speak to chagrin on that, there was NO ventilation. They keep that place tightly closed in the winter and itās heated.
A lot of places/people here are totally fine battening down the hatches because they think itās too cold for the horses. Thankfully the barn weāre at now is good about it.
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When they originally tested positive they had no temperature! That came about 48 hours later, so we were just watching to see them go downhill, very strange virus indeed. Valencia vet clinic was full of sick horses, some in an awful state, show really downplayed how serious the situation was in my opinion. Never so relieved to get my horses out of a show.
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There were NO cases at Ohio WEC over the winter. The statement issued by WEC was preventative only.
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I was referring to past outbreaks
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We had our FEI driver briefing at a show around that time (in FL), our vets really stressed the problems over there. The show may have downplayed it to the public, but word definitely got out in the TD, vet, etc. community.
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The Equine Disease Communications Center is a good resource for information about outbreaks of various kinds
https://www.equinediseasecc.org/alerts
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I went back and looked at EDCC and there have been zero reported EHV-1 Neuro cases in Ohio, going back to 1990, until 2019. And I included those numbers above. I think itās pretty new for this area.
One of the vet clinics hosted a seminar that I attended yesterday which was pretty good, but also said this is something we really havenāt seen much of. If there were cases prior to 2019, they werenāt reported.
We just had another round of upcoming events in the next month cancelled. Well minus Chargin (shocker), they just put out a big blast about all their upcoming shows starting the week after Easter.
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I think either that system isnāt updated appropriately or thereās some user error at some point in the process!
So Iām searching specifically for the neuro form which your article didnāt specifyā¦if it did I totally missed it. Itās the neuro form that is particularly concerning the local communities.
Hereās my search criteria:
Per the article below (emphasis mine), pretty clearly neuro (plus you just donāt get 12 deaths from the non neuro strains, especially outside of unvaccinated broodmares bands).
Itās been a long time, but my memory is that Findlay was the first well publicized outbreak of the neurological form, hence it probably was not being identified as such - nobody knew what the hell was going on. I think the mutation had been around for a while, but infrequent enough to be identified as EHV1. Something obviously happened in the 21st century where it became a more significant factor in EHV1 outbreaks but I believe it took a few more years before the science and the reporting caught up to the outbreaks.
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Even with all the proper precautions, it is hard to avoid equine herpes. āThe equine herpes virus is not an unusual infection,ā Glauer said. āThe thing that made this unusual is the number of deaths and the number of central nervous system cases that were associated with this particular outbreak.
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If I remember correctly, there were a couple of horses at Ohio State who were affected, as well.
Yeah, if you are new to horse ownership, it seems like this is all cut and dried (and scary), but things were much worse back when it was horses dying of an unknown neurological seemingly contagious disease, and yeah, they also had EHV-1, but nobody knew about a neurological mutation. Then there was the whack a mole era where disappeared in one place and popped up someplace new. I thought there was some racetrack outbreaks in/near OH as well. Fun times said nobody ever.
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