[cattlebreeder1]

Jan 24, 9:41 AM EST

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin agriculture officials says a second stallion in Outagamie County has tested positive for an equine venereal disease.

The Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection says animal-health authorities kept the 4-year-old stallion quarantined since last week.

They said it was found Thursday to have contagious equine metritis. CEM can cause temporary infertility and spontaneous abortion in horses but is treatable and poses no threat to humans.

Authorities say the stallion had been at a Wisconsin artificial-insemination center at the same time as another stallion that later tested positive for CEM.

Seventeen other stallions and 29 mares have been quarantined after being exposed to that infected stallion.

[Hiway]

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Authorities say the stallion had been at a Wisconsin artificial-insemination center at the same time as another stallion that later tested positive for CEM.

Seventeen other stallions and 29 mares have been quarantined after being exposed to that infected stallion.

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Seventeen other stallions, six ranch hands (two of them women), four sheep, a llama and 29 mares have been quarantined after being exposed to that infected stallion... oh, and three Dobermans were also quarentined for having enlarged vaginas !!!

;)


EDIT: forgot to mention the Dobes :)

[ponie]

There are actually far more horses under quarenteen. This was discovered in KY through a routine frozen semen culture and has been confirmed in 7 stallions at one facility here in KY and many others in other states. I want to say the stallion count is approximately 15 positive horses and many others under quarenteen. Unless you are breeding horses or own stallions that are exposed to those horses there is nothing to worry about.

[Dobies]

Hiway, on Jan 24 2009, 06:50 PM, said:

Edited for a truth...

Seventeen other stallions, six ranch hands (two of them women), four sheep, a llama and 29 mares have been quarantined after being exposed to that infected stallion.

;)

and three Dobermans......... :lol:

[Svadilfari]

Darn that stallion must have been busy.. Don't blame him though.. I know the feeling.. hehe I wonder if he went through ALL of the Staff at the stables or he left some poor guy UnInfected ;)

Somehow his sexual powers does make me wonder.. Hmm I think I have memory loss from a while back ;) Makes one think.. Better rubber up at stud Stations ;)

[buck]

hum.....why couldnt i get infected?

[Svadilfari]

It is my understanding that SOME STDs are transferable to humans with symptoms, and some may just make you a carrier of it, and some may not even make you that as they have a problem with temperature and such.

From what I know, there has been very little if hardly any at all research in the field of "Can Human-Animal STD Transfers". I am knot sure I would subject myself to fucking round with animals with an STD just in the name of Science and make notes on possible symptoms, and if one did, what would be the time limit? Some STD's have been known to lay dormant in the host fur number of years.

Also, there are a fair number of STD's one has to concider as there are a few per species.

[Dirtbiker2K]

CEM is actually casued by a bacterial infection from the bacteria Taylorella Equigenitalis and not a viral infection so the chances of mutation to allow cross species infection is very very very low.

One of the problems with CEM is that stallions are asymptomatic carriers of the bacteria and can carry it for years. Its only possible to diagnose via cultivation and examination of samples. It is very rare for the infection to cause abortion but it does commonly cause temporary infertility. Also transmission is much more likely through natural coverings than through AI.

The infection can be transmitted from stallions to mares and vice versa. Treatment is simply through antibiotics though in mares it can take several months for the infection to completely clear up. Good hygeine levels of breeding facilities are vital to help control the spread of infections.