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Discussion on EHV Quarantine Specifics?
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Posted on Monday, May 14, 2012 - 8:50 pm:
Good Evening Dr. O, I hope you are well. I have a new arrival on my farm as of this morning, a transport from Colorado to Alabama with a national hauler who picked up a few horses in Texas on the way. Given that a case of EHV was ID'd in Colorado today, I have the horse in isolation from my herd of 6. I am unsure how far away from the other horses his roundpen has to be? 100ft? 500ft?
I am washing hands between horses and not sharing buckets or brushes. Can the new boy have an hour of turnout in the same pasture the other horses use? They spend 6-8 hours in stalls during the heat of the day. Any other specifics to the isolation protocol please? Hoping this information is useful to the group as a whole. If it was in the database, I'm sorry I did not find it. Thanks!
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Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 9:49 pm:
Hello Stacy,
No, putting a horse in isolation for potential disease transmission, including EHV1, does not include rotating the isolated horses with the established population in the same pasture. Isolation should be as far away and as isolated as is practical for 21 days. There are no specific numbers as things like humidity, wind speed, dustiness all effect the optimal numbers. In short 500 feet of separation is better than 100 feet of separation.
DrO
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