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  • Title: Status of equine viral arteritis in Kentucky, 1985.
    Author: Timoney PJ, McCollum WH, Roberts AW, McDonald MJ.
    Journal: J Am Vet Med Assoc; 1987 Jul 01; 191(1):36-9. PubMed ID: 3038806.
    Abstract:
    Clinical cases of equine arteritis virus infection have not been diagnosed in Kentucky since 1984, and there has been no indication that any of the horses involved in the 1984 epizootic have since been responsible for spread of the disease to horses in other states or other countries. Cases of abortion caused by naturally acquired infection with this virus have not been confirmed in 1984 or 1985. Neither field nor vaccine strains of equine arteritis virus have been shown to induce teratologic abnormalities or the carrier state in foals born to infected or vaccinated mares. The carrier stallion appears to have played a major epidemiologic role in the dissemination and perpetuation of the virus. A commercial modified live equine viral arteritis vaccine was found to be safe and efficacious for stallions and mares. The disease can be controlled by immunizing the stallion population and by restricting the breeding of equine arteritis virus-shedding stallions to vaccinated or seropositive mares, followed by an appropriate period of isolation from other nonvaccinated Equidae.
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