Saturday, December 27, 2008

Canadian agency warning horse owners about contagious disease imported from US

EDMONTON - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has a warning for horse owners about a contagious disease affecting their steeds.

Agency officials say farms in Ontario and Alberta received tainted semen last spring from one of three horses on a Kentucky farm infected with contagious equine metritus.


The bacterial disease affects the reproductive organs of horses.

The disease can be treated with antibiotics and there are no human health complications with the disease, says the public agency.

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