The Equine Disease Communication Center (EDCC) reported yesterday, March 4, that a Quarter Horse gelding at a boarding facility in Washington County tested positive for strangles and has been quarantined. The same horse also tested positive for EHV-Respiratory.

A day earlier, March 3, EDCC reported that a 17-year-old Oldenburg gelding, also at a boarding facility in Washington County, had tested positive for strangles with abscess on February 25. The horse is alive and the facility is under an official quarantine.