South Africa conducts active surveillance for infectious pathogens in horses, such as
African horse sickness virus (AHSV), to help the horse industry maintain disease-free status, as required by the World Organisation for Animal Health.
By Tesfa-alem Tekle October 3, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) aC" An outbreak of
African horse sickness has killed over 2,000 horses, mules and donkeys in Ethiopia since March, an official said.
African horse sickness (AHS) is a severe, often fatal disease of equids that is caused by AHS virus (AHSV), a member of the genus Orbivirus, family Reoviridae (1).
Cutaneous vasculitis may be present as a significant component of many diseases such as equine viral arteritis (EVA), equine herpes virus infection, Equine ehrlichiosis,
African horse sickness, Hendra disease, Venezuelan equine encephalitides, congestive heart failure and angioneurotic edema (Del, 2000).
TWO new horse diseases, threatening Britain because of climate change, have prompted the Thoroughbred Breeders' Association and The Horse Trust to set up a seminar focusing on
African Horse sickness and West Nile virus.
DEFRA add: "If we do not have accurate information on the overall size of the UK horse population and it's geographic distribution, we cannot plan effective monitoring of equine diseases, or develop effective control strategies in the event of an outbreak of a notifiable or exotic horse diseases, such as
African Horse Sickness or West Nile Fever."
By using maximum-likelihood and P-distance analysis (online Technical Appendix Figure 2), we compared isolate SAE25/2011 with MIDV-857, which was isolated in 1993 from spleen of a horse with
African horse sickness virus (AHSV)-like signs in Zimbabwe (GenBank accession no.