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==Description==

Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA) is an exotic viral disease affecting horses, donkeys and mules. It is caused by Equine Infectious Anaemia Virus (EIAV), an equid-specific lentivirus in the retrovirus family that is closely to related to HIV in humans.

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Cases of EIA in the UK are extremely rare and have previously occurred in horses that have travelled abroad or ~~have~~ been imported from areas of endemic disease. The disease is notifiable and confirmed cases must be humanely destroyed.

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Cases of EIA in the UK are extremely rare and have previously occurred in horses that have travelled abroad or been imported from areas of endemic disease. In the UK The disease is notifiable and confirmed cases must be humanely destroyed.

==Signalment==

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