Deadly Virus Found in Horse

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September 2, 2001

Deadly Virus Found in Horse

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

In the wake of the discovery of the West Nile virus in a horse in central Kentucky, breeders and owners are being urged to administer a vaccine that may halt the spread of the disease.

"West Nile had been detected as nearby as Ohio and Indiana, so we were not surprised to see a case here in Kentucky," Billy Ray Smith, Kentucky's agriculture commissioner, told The Thoroughbred Times.

The Emerging Diseases Committee in Kentucky met Friday and stressed that the virus cannot be spread from an infected horse to any other creature, including other horses or humans.

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