Sixth swine flu death blamed on infected animal
By By Brian Sandlin, staff reporter September비욘드 엣지 카지노 를 털어 라 25, 2015, 2:16:26 PM EDT Share this article:
Officials are blaming a horse that was in danger of contracting a deadly flu bug because it was on an island away from most people.
The swine flu outbreak in Europe and the United States this spring has killed more than 5,300 people, but officials have found no link between that epidemic and the horse that died in Kentucky last month.
State health officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the death of the 10-month-old horse at the Thomas A. Goetz Animal Clinic outside of Lexington.
“It’s a reminder for us how susceptible the United States is to disease outbreaks,” said Dr. Stephen Jaffe, a medical officer with the Kentucky Department of Health, which issued the initial warnings about the outbreak in May. “And that there’s very, very high transmission. We’re on the front lines in the battle to protect Americans.”
Officials say infected swine have passed onto horses in the United States, China and Europe, but there’s been no known connection to the Kentucky case.
An animal-health worker said the stallion, named “Mulle”, arrived on Tuesday. He had a fever of 100.0, lost about 10% of his weight and was stable, Dr. Jaffeatm카지노 said, although the stallion would sometimes faint after being in the van. The worker said his temperature remained stable, although he’d heard from other horses that they had received sick or sneezed.
“We’ve been saying since Wednesday that we would have a horse at most six weeks old,” he said.
Mulle was placed in incubators on Wednesday evening at the facility to 엠 카지노 주소keep him healthy.
He and his owner, Jennifer Tully, were last seen Wednesday afternoon, driving to the clinic, according to police.
A Kentucky Health Department spokesman said the death could be linked to Mulle’s exposure to an airborne strain of horse fever that the animal had last tested negative for a few months earlier.
Two other horses have died recently in an unusual outbreak that has sickened tens of thousands of people nationwide. Horses infected with horse fever were among eight of the horses identified in May as having died in the outbreak in France and France.
Authorities said horse fever had been detected in more than 7,500 infected swine in both the United States and Europe. Th