'Swamp fever' found in UK Defra, the British Government's department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has confirmed that a horse in Cornwall has tested positive for Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA), commonly known as 'swamp fever'. A viral disease normally spread by insects, the infection has been in the news this week after a horse trained at Cologne racecourse in Germany tested positive for the disease. Last year's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner Danedream is also housed at Cologne, along with over 300 other horses and all of them have been grounded for 90 days in quarantine, meaning Peter Schiergen's filly cannot defend her title in Paris on Sunday. The infected horse at the Cornwall stables was a non-thoroughbred and has been put down, with restrictions placed and others being tested.
