Situation Report
Wellington EHV Incident
1/3/07
1650 hrs

Current Situation:

1.  No new clinical cases reported today.
2.   No new quarantines issued today.
3. There are ten quarantined premises, seven in the Wellington area, one in Ocala, FL, one in Jupiter, FL, and one in Indiantown, FL.

            Quarantined Premises
1/3/2007

4.   With the exception of the quarantined premises, there are no state or federal restrictions for horse movements into, within, or out of the state of Florida. Some premises and events have their own entry requirements. Contact your point of destination for specific information concerning any restrictions that premises/events may have imposed.
5.   Wellington EHV Incident Command Post is operational.
6.  Monitoring of five suspected/exposed premises has been discontinued and the number of such premises reduced from 6 to 1 on our web site daily update table.  These premises have been monitored by FDACS for the past 21 days and have had no clinical signs of EHV-1 in any horses.

7.  Incident Command Post Information:
                  
ICP location:
           
Clayton E. Hutcheson
IFAS Agricultural Services Center
559 North Military Trail
West Palm Beach, FL 33415-1311
           
             ICP FAX:                   

561-233-1768
Address to “Wellington EHV Incident”
                       
ICP phone:     
866-568-2836

            Incident Commander:
Dr. Tom Holt

Current Operations:

1.   Three teams are working in the West Palm Beach area checking quarantined premises.

2.    Dr. Mike Short is working with area veterinarians and stables to deal with specific     issues associated with the disease outbreak.

3.    Mark Fagan is the Public Information Officer (PIO) and communicating with local
municipalities and media representatives.

4.    Palm Beach County animal control and emergency management officials are     
attending briefings at the ICP and are providing resources.

5.     EHV1exposed horses are being tracked.
            
Future Operations:
 
1.  Teams will continue to visit quarantined premises daily.

2.  Continued EHV exposed horse tracing.

General Information:

1.  For the most updated information on incident please visit the following web sites:
 www.flanimalindustry.com or http://www.doacs.state.fl.us/ai/ .

Related articles:

Dec. 30, 2006 8pm, Current Situation: One new death, one new clinical case at Palm Beach Equine Sports Complex already under state quarantine. No new quarantines issued today. AM: One new presumed infected case located at a facility already under state quarantine.

Dec. 29, 2006 Current Situation: One new confirmed case of equine herpesvirus located at a facility already under state quarantine.  No new quarantines issued as of Dec. 28th

Dec. 28, 2006 No new confirmed cases or quarantines at this time.  Three strike teams collected temperature check charts, stall inventories, and trainer contacts from all facilities under mandatory state quarantine. Dr. Diane Kitchen is tracing movements of the exposed and infected horses. Dr. Mike Short is corresponding with area veterinarians on health and testing issues. Public Information Officer Mark Fagan is preparing Spanish language information sheets for distribution. (FLSART)

• Dec. 27, 2006 Quarantined premises added
• Equine Herpesvirus type 1 - Symptoms, Problems, Treatment
• Equine Neurologic Pathology
• Herpesvirus Vaccination Recommendations from TheHorse.com
• Neurological EHV-1 - Outbreak Information - 8 Documents
• 12/26/06 - QUARANTINED PREMISES ADDED
• 12/25/06 - Equine Herpes Virus Update Wellington/Ocala
• 12/24/06 - Ocala and Quarantine Updates
• 12/23/06 - Situation Report
• 12/22/06 - FLSART SITREP
• 12/19/06 - EHV-1 Bio-security Information Sheet
• 12/19/06 - EHV1 Wellington Biosecurity & Prodcedures PDF (DOACS)
• 12/19/06 - FDACS Investigation
• 12/16/06 - Press Conference Information & Procedures
• 12/16/06 - Video of Press Conference on Equine Herpes Virus in Wellington