Is African horse sickness spread via direct contact between horses?

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Is African horse sickness spread via direct contact between horses?

African horse sickness is a vector-borne viral disease. The virus is transmitted when a biting midge (an arthropod) feeds on an infected horse and then bites a susceptible horse, passing the virus in its saliva. Direct horse-to-horse contact isn’t an effective transmission route, and there’s no spread via contaminated water or through humans acting as carriers. The key idea is that the disease relies on the insect vector for transmission, not direct contact between horses.

African horse sickness is a vector-borne viral disease. The virus is transmitted when a biting midge (an arthropod) feeds on an infected horse and then bites a susceptible horse, passing the virus in its saliva. Direct horse-to-horse contact isn’t an effective transmission route, and there’s no spread via contaminated water or through humans acting as carriers. The key idea is that the disease relies on the insect vector for transmission, not direct contact between horses.

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