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  • UT: Horses at Axtell Wild Horse Corrals quarantined after possible ?Strangles? outbreak

    Source: http://fox13now.com/2017/04/03/horse...gles-outbreak/


    Horses at Axtell Wild Horse Corrals quarantined after possible ?Strangles? outbreak
    Posted 5:22 pm, April 3, 2017, by Elizabeth Suggs, Updated at 05:23PM, April 3, 2017

    AXTELL, Utah -- The Bureau of Land Management and Axtell Contract Off-Range Corrals have issued a voluntary quarantine of wild horses at a facility due to a possible "Strangles" or equine distemper (Streptococcus equi) outbreak.

    Horses at the Axtell Wild Horse Corrals facility are being tested for the infection after the animals contracted some sort of respiratory tract infection, a press release said. Individual horses are being tested, but an early diagnosis says the infection is "Strangles," the press release continued...

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