African horses must wait for 60 days, because of a disease known as African horse sickness.

African horse sickness (AHS) is a highly infectious, and deadly disease.

Notable were the etiology of the cattle disease lamsiekte and the development of a successful vaccine against African horse sickness.

African horse sickness virus (Serotypes 1-9)

Brumby populations also may have the potential to pass exotic diseases, such as equine influenza and African horse sickness to domestic horses.

African horse sickness is related to Bluetongue and is spread by the same midges (Culicoides species).

It is now the subject of a separate Council Directive (2000/75) which applies the control measures as for African Horse Sickness.

He was looking for diseases transmitted by culicoides, and he found two: African horse sickness and Bluetongue, which affects cattle and sheep.

One Member was saying that in a similar matter - African horse sickness - her country was left to cope alone, and that should not be the position either.

In the late 1870s, a devastating epidemic of African horse sickness hit Egypt, killing thousands of horses, including many horses of prized bloodlines.

Other species of Orbiviruses are responsible for other diseases of animals such as African Horse sickness and Equine encephalosis virus.

A spokeswoman from the International Equestrian Federation said there had been no cases of African Horse Sickness recorded for at least two years, but welcomed the decision.

Unfortunately, an epidemic of African horse sickness in the 1870s that killed thousands of horses throughout Egypt decimated much of his herd, wiping out several irreplaceable bloodlines.

African horse sickness was diagnosed in Spain in 1987-90 and in Portugal in 1989, but was eradicated using slaughter policies, movement restrictions, vector eradication and vaccination.

Black-backed jackals can carry diseases such as rabies, canine parvovirus, canine distemper, canine adenovirus, Ehrlichia canis and African horse sickness.

Some of them spread the livestock diseases blue tongue and African horse sickness - other species though, are at least partly nectar feeders and some actually suck insect bodily fluids.

The three economically most important orbiviruses are Bluetongue virus, African horse sickness virus and Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus all of which are transmitted by Culicoides species.

Such a progression is of major concern to the worldwide livestock industry, primarily due to the similarity between EEV and other more devastating equid pathogens, such as the African Horse Sickness Virus.

This institute under his leadership carried out research on African horse sickness, sleeping sickness, malaria, East Coast fever (Theileria parva), and tick-borne diseases such as redwater, heartwater, and biliary.

He also said there was reason for optimism about being able to hold equestrian events after the European Commission's Veterinary Commission found that the four-province region of Catalonia was free of African horse sickness.

By 1 A.M. on Friday, Dr. Murray's team was testing samples from the dead and dying animals for African horse sickness, which is also a viral infection but one that does not occur in Australia.

Hundreds of horses have died in Spain from African Horse Sickness, a highly infectious mosquito-borne disease, and an outbreak in Madrid five years ago spread to the southern region of Andalucia, where 180,000 horses have been vaccinated.

Despite harsh climate conditions, endemic diseases such as trypanosomiasis the African horse sickness and unsuitable terrain that limited the effectiveness of horses in many parts of Africa, horses were continuously imported and were, in some areas, a vital instrument of war.

The tri-fold brochures had titles such as "Hog Cholera," "African Swine Fever," "African Horse Sickness," and something called "Lumpy Skin Disease," which, judging from the scary photos in the brochure, I think one of my old girlfriends had.