Venereal disease found in non-TB stallion in Ireland
A instance of the venereal disease, contagious equine metritis, has been reported inward a stallion inward Ireland.
The instance inward Doughiska, Galway, was reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) final week.
The main veterinarian officeholder amongst the Department of Agriculture, Dr Martin Blake, said the stallion inward enquiry was a non-thoroughbred, who was imported inward 2009.
He tested negative for the disease, caused yesteryear the bacterium Taylorella equigenitalis, inward 2009, 2010 too 2011, simply was positive inward Apr 2012. Culture indicated he was negative for the illness on iii occasions later treatment.
However, he was tested inward Feb 2013 earlier the mating flavor too was positive.
Blake said all horses on the premises were non-thoroughbreds too at that topographic point was no indication that the illness had spread to other equines.
“Antibiotic extended semen has been used to inseminate all mares. We convey a vast wealth of bear witness from final twelvemonth to present the effectiveness of the extender – [about] lxxx mares were covered too no spread occurred. No mares convey been inseminated inward 2013.”
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