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Current Document: Codes of Practice on Equine Diseases
Each year, the HBLB updates and publishes Codes of Practice on:

Venereally transmitted bacterial diseases caused by the contagious equine metritis organism CEMO, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa;

Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA)

Equine herpesvirus (EHV)

Equine coital exanthema (ECE)

Equine infectious anaemia (EIA)

Guidelines on Strangles

Any of the above diseases can have serious consequences for horse and pony breeding. They can compromise welfare, disrupt breeding activity, cause economic loss to mare and stallion owners and are costly to deal with.


The Codes of Practice set out minimum recommendations for the prevention of these diseases and for their control, should they occur, during horse or pony breeding activities. The recommendations apply to all breeds of horse and pony, and to both natural mating and AI.

PDF Download: Codes of Practice for 2010

PDF Download: EIA-Only Codes 2010


To support the Code of Practice on venereally transmitted bacterial diseases, the HBLB approves laboratories for the purposes of testing for the CEMO, K. pneumoniae and P. aeruginosa. The register of approved laboratories is published here by area, or by alphabetical order.

Ireland and France also publish lists of approved laboratories. Although these laboratories are not within the HBLB laboratory approval scheme*, the lists are available here for ease of reference.

Approved laboratories in Ireland

Approved laboratories in France


*HBLB is not responsible for the content of the Irish and French approved laboratory lists.


Equine Grants Team
Horserace Betting Levy Board
Parnell House
25 Wilton Road
London
SW1V 1LW

Tel: 020 7802 3874
Fax: 020 7333 0041

E-mail: equine.grants@hblb.org.uk