Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA) - HUNGARY

Important: Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) : Event organisers in Hungary must provide event details to the Hungarian animal health authorities. Official controls will take place at the events and horses may not enter event venues without appropriate documentation, including a laboratory test for EIA with results not older than 30 day.

 

 

30.July 2015

...concerning...CH-M-A and CH-M-YH, Fabiansebestyen and Mezőhegyes (HUN), September 2015. Some concerns have been raised by National Federations and athletes regarding the CH-M-A and CH-M-YH events due to take place in September 2015 in Fabiansebestyen and Mezőhegyes... L I N K 

 

 

20.July 2015

 

FEI information (Source: FEI LINK)  An outbreak of Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA) has recently occurred in Hungary. In March 2015, a diagnosis of EIA was made in a horse from Veszprém (HUN) that had been treated for an ethmoidal (nasal) haematoma in a veterinary clinic. The infected horse was euthanased.

 

All horses that had been in-contact with the infected horse were identified, quarantined and were tested every 21 days for 90 days. Five horses that had been in-contact with the blood of the infected horse tested positive and were euthanased. No further horses have tested positive.

 

Unrelated to the outbreak, Hungary’s national mandatory testing programme has revealed that four horses have returned inconclusive results. Further testing is taking place to establish their disease status and the horses have been placed into quarantine as a precaution. The positive cases identified in the monitoring programme have concerned only leisure horses. Competition horses have not been affected.

 

Considering the present situation, the location of the event as well as the measures imposed to contain the EIA virus, the FEI views the risk of infection to be low for horses participating in the  CSIO3*-W-NC FEI event in Budapest (16-19 July 2015). The FEI will continue to monitor the situation and provide additional information.

 

You can read more information from the FEI on the Equine Infectious Anaemia Outbreak in Hungary here