African Horse Sickness

Reid, Natalie

doi:10.1016/s0007-1935(17)43710-9

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“…This was followed by outbreaks during 1960 in Cyprus, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan as well as in Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Turkey. Between 1959 and 1961, more than 300 000 equids were lost to AHS [ 44 , 46 , 72 ]. In 1965 AHS occurred in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco and subsequently spread to Spain in 1966 [ 40 ].…”

Section: African Horse Sicknessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-emergence of bluetongue, African horse sickness, and other Orbivirus diseases

2010

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Arthropod-transmitted viruses (Arboviruses) are important causes of disease in humans and animals, and it is proposed that climate change will increase the distribution and severity of arboviral diseases. Orbiviruses are the cause of important and apparently emerging arboviral diseases of livestock, including bluetongue virus (BTV), African horse sickness virus (AHSV), equine encephalosis virus (EEV), and epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) that are all transmitted by haematophagous Culicoides insects. Recent changes in the global distribution and nature of BTV infection have been especially dramatic, with spread of multiple serotypes of the virus throughout extensive portions of Europe and invasion of the south-eastern USA with previously exotic virus serotypes. Although climate change has been incriminated in the emergence of BTV infection of ungulates, the precise role of anthropogenic factors and the like is less certain. Similarly, although there have been somewhat less dramatic recent alterations in the distribution of EHDV, AHSV, and EEV, it is not yet clear what the future holds in terms of these diseases, nor of other potentially important but poorly characterized Orbiviruses such as Peruvian horse sickness virus.

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Section: African Horse Sicknessmentioning

confidence: 99%