It has been announced that, effective January 7, the office of the state veterinarian has lifted a quarantine that had been imposed on a Standardbred training facility in Kent County, Delaware.

Quarantine had been initially placed on December 16, 2019 after a single horse had tested positive by culture for S. equi. Quarantined contacts of the infected horse were released on January 6, 2020 after a three-week quarantine with no clinical signs or new cases.

The infected horse was released from quarantine January 7, 2020 after receipt of negative qPCR results on guttural pouch lavage fluid.

(With files from the Delaware Department of Agriculture)