WASHINGTON, D.C. - Fifteen
Trakehner horses, originally from
West Germany, which were
brought into the United States
illegally last year, have been
deported.
A federal district court ordered
the horses, all mares, to be
deported because the Illinois
owner failed to meet U.S.
Department of Agriculture
regulations to protect the nation’s
horses against a venereal disease.
“The mares were in violation of
our animal import regulations
because they were misrepresented
when* 1 they were imported from
Denmark,” said John Atwell,
deputy administrator of USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health In-.
spection Service. “The mares were
moved from West Germany to
Denmark in August of 1980 and
then exported to the United States
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USDA deports illegal Trakehner horses
as Danish horses in September of
1980.”
The United States,has banned
the import of West German mares
since 1978 when contagious equine
metritis, a venereal disease of
horses, was diagnosed in horses in
that country.
Atwell said that APHIS
veterinarians confirmed the origin
of the horses in the spring of 1981
and ordered the mares out of the
country. The owner, Marie Louise
Barton, sued to stop this action.
The Federal District Court in East
St. Louis, HI., ordered Barton to
comply with the USDA
regulations, and the horses were
deported.
“We viewed deportation as a
necessary step in preserving the
integrity of our control program,”
Atwell said. “If the horses were
allowed to remain, others would
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introduce horses illegally with the
expectation that courts would
allow them to stay if the horses
could be proved free of disekse. It
is likely diseased horses would be
included in such importations.”
Contagious equine metritis is a
highly ‘contagious bacterial in
fection that most notably affects
mares. It causes uterine infection
and failure to conceive. The
stallion is a carrier and can be
freed of the bacteria by washing an
antimicrobial treatment of the
external genitalia. Antibiotics can
be used to help free mares of the
infection, but treatment is not
always successful.
USDA restricts the import of
breeding age horses from coun
tries where the disease has been
found. Geldings and horses under
two years of age are not affected
by these import restrictions.
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Stallions may be imported if they
have been treated with an ap
proved medication under foreign
government supervision and are
found to be free of the infection on
three successive tests. They must
then pass’' USDA port-of-entry
quarantine to check for other
diseases before being consigned to
a state that has agreed to carry put
further inspections, precautionary
treatments and testing under state
quarantine.
•The disease was ' accidentally
introduced into Kentucky in 1978. It
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that state an estimated $13.6
million to bring the outbreak under
control. The disease was found in
Trakehner horse in Missouri in
1979; it cost breeders in that state
about $320,000 to control.
Contagious equine metritis was
first reported in the United
Kingdom in 1977. Since then, it has
been identified as a new disease in
nine countries; Austria, Australia,
Belgium, Denmark, Federal
Republic of Germany, Ireland,
Italy, Japan and the United States.
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