Dawn Alves, a veterinarian with All About Equine in Chico, said her
phones were "ringing off the hook" Tuesday about the highly contagious
Equine Herpes Virus-1.
There have not been any local cases, but some horse owners from
this area attended a recent show in Bakersfield where other horses
became sick. The local horses would still be within the incubation
period for the virus, she said.
"Our recommendation is to keep horses home. Do not take horses out until we see what happens in the next few weeks."
Horse owners are being advised to keep their horses at home until an outbreak of a deadly horse virus is tracked.

It's all over now for Spirit, the lonely Mars rover stuck fast in a patch of crusty Martian sand.After a brilliant five-year career gathering evidence that the cold
and arid planet may once have been warm and wet, Spirit fell into the
trap two years ago, and then its radio fell silent on March 22 last
year.Engineers at Mission Control in Pasadena, who had tried without
success to contact the doomed planetary explorer for more than a year,
sent a final radio signal to Spirit before dawn Wednesday. After
listening in vain for even a single faint beep in reply, they decided it
was time to quit trying.