And state agriculture officials are haggling with equestrian officials over who will pay to quarantine foreign competition horses that carry a tick-borne disease called piroplasmosis.
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Under the terms, a limited number of piroplasmosis-positive horses will be granted waivers allowing them to compete in the dressage and show jumping events.
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Horses testing positive to the disease equine piroplasmosis will, in fact, be admitted, but only for jumping and dressage, not cross-country.
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The EU wanted the state of Georgia to allow horses infected with equine piroplasmosis, a tick-borne disease, to compete in the 1996 Olympics.
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"It has an element of danger, " said Dr . Ralph Knowles of the Maryland Department of Agriculture, considered an expert on piroplasmosis.
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The issue was the condition called piroplasmosis, a tick disease that affects many horses in Asia and Latin America and is carried by many elite competitive horses.
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The quarantine plan would ensure that horses carrying piroplasmosis would pose no threat to the American horses, who have no immunity to the disease, Irvin said.
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The commissioner is concerned that piroplasmosis, common among horses in Europe and South America, could spread to Georgia and the rest of the Southern United States.
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Cases of raccoon dogs carrying rabies are known from the lower Volga, Voronezh and Lithuania, and massive epizootics of piroplasmosis were recorded in Ukraine and Tartary.
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This time it's about piroplasmosis, a tick-borne ailment that reportedly has infected half of the horses eligible for Atlanta in half a dozen countries.
