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A highly fatal and infectious disease in horses is poised to hit Britain due to the effects of global warming, scientists have warned.
African Horse Sickness (AHS) is an insect-borne disease, spread by the Culicoides midge. The disease, which has been known since the 1700s, has spread north from southern and equatorial Africa to North Africa and the southern Mediterranean in the 1960s.See the full content of this document
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African Horse Sickness Threat to Britain
Since then there have been outbreaks between 1987 and 1991 in North Afric...
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