So if your head has been burried under a rock for the past 2 weeks there has been a huge out-break of the EHV-1 virus. Most of the affected horses were from the Western side of N.A. A great article on how its really hurting the people and the industy
http://blogs.equisearch.com/horsetalk/2011/05/19/ehv-1-outbreak-inside-report-from-an-affected-barn/
Thankfully Nova Scotia has not yet had any reported cases, or any of the neboring states, or provinces. However in April of 2005 less than an hour from my home there were 3 confirmed cases that were put down at the Truro racetrack. Although very scary for all local horse owners at the time, track officals, owners and trainers did the right thing and cancled races, kept horses at home and strangers out of barns and disinfected everything.
Hopefully in the new outbreak the owners and trainers of the infected horses will do the same.
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I'm way over in North Carolina, and we don't have any confirmed cases here, or even near here, but Lilly is staying on the property at the barn until all this is over. The way horses are shipped all over the country... you just never know.
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