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By Betsy Parker
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
State officials imposed a quarantine of the Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Center effective immediately due to the suspected infection of the neurologic form of Equine Herpesvirus type 1 in three hospitalized horses. No additional patients will be admitted to the Leesburg hospital until further notice.
Hospital officials expect the quarantine to last 14-28 days.
EHV-1, one of several strains of the virus, is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal disease that, although not transmissible to humans, can cause respiratory signs in horses, early- and late-term abortion, peri-natal infection, encephalitis, and other complications. It is spread from infected horses, which shed the virus through nasal fluids and bodily secretions, by airborne transmission and by
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