Time: 2024-11-20
multiple animal have die in Spokane County from different contagious disease in Holocene calendar_month. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ( WDFW ) confirm, on Friday, a second case of Chronic wasting disease ( CWD ) in a dead deer, and the Washington State Department of Agriculture ( WSDA ) report Monday two horse die from Equine Herpes Virus.
WDFW state CWD was found in an adult male White-chase deer that was reap by a hunter during the opening weekend of the modern firearm deer season. The department add the deer was reap close to where the state's first case of CWD was confirm during the summer in the Fairwood area of Spokane County. The deer's lymph node were submit to the Washington Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Washington State University for testing on October 16, harmonize to the department. WDFW was advise this week of the positive results.
given the location where this deer was reap – approximately five mile north of the initial CWD detection and West of Highway 395-this positive trial consequence is not a complete surprise, Chief of WDFW's Wildlife Science Division Donny Martorello state via WDFW's web_site. The populace can path confirm case of CWD on the Departments CWD web page, Martorello state. hunter can also use their wild Idaho to expression up the lab consequence from sample they submitted.
Also in Spokane County, over the weekend, two horse yield to a disease. WSDA state the horse die of the neuropathogenic strain of Equine Herpes Virus ( EHV-1 ) otherwise know as Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy ( EHM ). This contagious, often fatal disease of horse has motivate the Washington State Department of Agriculture veterinarian to issue a warning for those who recently visit a local sphere where other horse were present, the department stated.
Two Spokane equine premises are under quarantine. Meanwhile, WSDA is promote horse owner who have commingle horse to self-quarantine and arrest any transportation_system for the following three week in an attempt to stop the disease from spread. The virus incubation time_period is highly variable and can be as hanker as 14 days, Washington Assistant State Veterinarian Dr. Ben Smith state. WSDA is also promote biosecurity measure such as avoid nose-to-nose contact between horse and not sharing equipment.