Equine infectious anaemia,
Hungary

Information received on 18/08/2020 from Dr Lajos Bognár, Deputy State Secretary Chief Veterinary Officer, Food Chain Safety Department, Ministry of Agriculture, Budapest, Hungary

Summary

Report type	Follow-up report No. 5
Date of start of the event	05/06/2020
Date of confirmation of the event	24/06/2020
Report date	18/08/2020
Date submitted to OIE	18/08/2020
Reason for notification	Recurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence	14/01/2020
Manifestation of disease	Sub-clinical infection
Causal agent	Equine infectious anaemia virus
Nature of diagnosis	Laboratory (advanced)
This event pertains to	the whole country
Related reports	Immediate notification (24/06/2020) Follow-up report No. 1 (09/07/2020) Follow-up report No. 2 (21/07/2020) Follow-up report No. 3 (23/07/2020) Follow-up report No. 4 (03/08/2020) Follow-up report No. 5 (18/08/2020) Follow-up report No. 6 (02/09/2020) Follow-up report No. 7 (21/09/2020)

Outbreaks

There are no new outbreaks in this report

Epidemiology

Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection	Unknown or inconclusive
Epidemiological comments	The affected horse in Nógrád county was killed.

Control measures

Measures applied	Movement control inside the country Screening Quarantine Selective killing and disposal Disinfection Vaccination permitted (if a vaccine exists) No treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied	No other measures

Diagnostic test results

Laboratory name and type	Species	Test	Test date	Result
Veterinary Diagnostic Directorate (National laboratory)	Equidae	antibody detection ELISA	20/07/2020	Positive

Future Reporting

The event is continuing. Weekly follow-up reports will be submitted.