How to Approach an Equine Infectious Disease Outbreak

摘要

In 2005, the American Association of Equine Prac-titioners (AAEP) assembled a task force assigned to develop guidelines for the management of equine infectious disease outbreaks. To date, the task force has developed three sets of symptom-based guidelines. These flow charts contain specific, ex-panded biosecurity and diagnostic information and are available to members on the AAEP website or through the AAEP office. The purpose of this paper is to address universal considerations in health managementwherever a large group of horses is assembled.