Irish ponies suspected in French equine flu outbreak
A French means working to comprise an outbeak of equine flu believes the infection came from Ireland, inwards ponies bought inwards Oct sales.
Nineteen cases accept been confirmed too hence far, amongst 2 deaths.
Documentation from the French Surveillance Center for equine pathologies (RESPE) gives the breeding of the affected ponies every bit connemara.
The means warned that several hundred ponies were bought at the sales too had been dispatched to several countries.
It urged vigilance.
Documentation on its website indicates the latest confirmed outbreak was inwards Mayenne, amongst a amount of 8 cases.
On Oct 31, cases were confirmed inwards half-dozen ponies inwards Finistere. That outbreak, it said, was epidemiologically linked to a previous alarm inwards Seine-et-Marne, where 5 connemaras were confirmed affected.
Two of the ponies from Seine-et-Marne died.
Equine flu is a highly contagious viral infection, the symptoms of which include a cough, nasal discharge too fever.
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