Equine infectious diseases 

The Equine Quarterly Disease Surveillance Report 2Q 2024 produced by Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance, is now available. Some of the key updates included in the report are: NEWS: West Nile Virus – do you advise vaccinating horses going to endemic regions in vector season? NEWS: An update of the current unavailability of Artervac NEWS: An update on equine influenza in the UK from the virologists at the University of Cambridge monitoring the virus FOCUS: Hyalomma marginatum – an

The 4th Quarter 2024 Equine Quarterly Disease Surveillance Report is now available. Within are key updates, including guidance regarding the unavailability of the Equip Artervac EVA vaccine, a commentary discussing the latest bluetongue cases in livestock and the parallels of this disease's epidemiology with African Horse Sickness, and a Focus Article addressing the emergence of multidrug-resistant Rhodococcus equi. Updates about the 12th International Equine Infectious Diseases Conference

Although bluetongue does not affect horses, the significant emergence of bluetongue virus-3 (BTV-3) in livestock in the Netherlands in September 2023 and its subsequent detection in Kent and Norfolk since November 2023, highlights the risk to the UK of windborne transfer of biting midge-borne orbivirus infections from mainland Europe. African horse sickness (AHS) virus is a related orbivirus that is transmitted by biting midges and would pose a highly significant threat to the UK equine indust