statement<\/a>, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller urged horse owners, trainers and venue operators who attended or were in proximity to the Waco event, or who have recently returned from any large equine gatherings in the Waco region in the last 14 days to closely monitor their animals.<\/p>\n\u201cThis virus can spread fast, it can be deadly, and the earliest signs are often so subtle they\u2019re easy to miss,\u201d Miller said. \u201cThat\u2019s why monitoring your horses right now is critical. The quicker we identify a potential case, the better chance we have to protect not only our animals, but the entire Texas equine community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miller also recommends implementing biosecurity measures like isolating animals that exhibit symptoms of the virus, disinfecting trailers and equipment and staying in contact with a veterinarian.<\/p>\n
Symptoms of the EHV-1 can include:<\/p>\n
Fever
\nNasal discharge, coughing, or other respiratory changes
\nDepression or lethargy
\nNeurological signs: stumbling or incoordination, loss of tail tone, hind-limb weakness, head tilt, recumbency
\nAbortions in pregnant mares<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m asking every local horse rider, roper, trainer, and breeder to do their part today,\u201d Miller said. \u201cCheck your horses twice a day, isolate any exposed animals, tighten up your biosecurity, and call your vet the moment something looks off. If we work together and take this seriously, we can get ahead of this outbreak and keep our horses and our state’s $12.3 billion equine industry safe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo has canceled its qualifying event in Uvalde due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[244,30721,2271,132,1226,102,584,223,82,84,83,27],"class_list":["post-58641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-animals","tag-app-agriculture","tag-app-health","tag-austin","tag-christine-sanchez","tag-dallas","tag-health","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}