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What does AHS stand for?

African Horse Sickness


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If taken up, the scheme would start in 2012 and would subsidise state attempts to control diseases such as African Horse Sickness.
Tests for Differential Diagnoses African horse sickness virus (AHSV), equine encephalosis virus (EEV), and equine herpesviruses (EHV) 1 and 4 were identified by using viral culture and antigen detection assays and/or complement fixation tests (31) on serum samples and using RT-PCR to detect AHSV and EHV (32).
His recent research includes study into diseases such as bluetongue and African horse sickness, as well as work on infections in African wildlife that can spread to domestic animals and humans.
It also houses a reference lab which specialises in the diagnosis of diseases including African horse sickness, Swine vesicular disease - and foot and mouth disease.
DEFRA add: "If we do not have accurate information on the overall size of the UK horse population and it's geographic distribution, we cannot plan effective monitoring of equine diseases, or develop effective control strategies in the event of an outbreak of a notifiable or exotic horse diseases, such as African Horse Sickness or West Nile Fever.
Other reoviruses, called orbiviruses, pose a significant veterinary threat, causing an equine disease called African horse sickness and bluetongue disease in sheep and cattle.
Other species of the orbiviruses are African horse sickness virus, epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV), and some lesser-known viruses such as Peruvian horse sickness virus, Chuzan virus, Saint Croix River virus, and Yunnan orbivirus (2).
By Tesfa-alem Tekle October 3, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) aC" An outbreak of African horse sickness has killed over 2,000 horses, mules and donkeys in Ethiopia since March, an official said.

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