Florida officials are urging horse owners to tighten biosecurity after multiple horses that competed at recent rodeo events in Texas and Oklahoma tested positive for a potentially dangerous virus, though no related cases have been detected in Florida, the state said Thursday.

The Florida Department of Agriculture said Thursday that multiple horses that attended a World Pro Rodeo Association (WPRA) event in Waco, Texas, from Nov. 5-9, and the Barrel Futurities of America event in Guthrie, Oklahoma, from Nov. 17-18, showed signs of illness and tested positive for Equine Herpes Virus-Type 1 (EHV-1).

Officials said that so far, no cases of EHV-1 associated with this outbreak have been identified in Florida.

However, the Division of Animal Industry is continuing to recommend that hor

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