APHIS EXEMPTS ICELAND FROM HORSE TESTING RULES
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has amended the rules to exempt horses from Iceland from testing for dourine, glanders, equine piroplasmosis, and equine infectuous anemia during the quarantine period following importation.
' APHIS said the action is warranted because Iceland has never reported any of these horse diseases. “It appears that horses imported from Iceland would pose a negligible risk of introducing those diseases into the United States,” the agency said.