By Drew Sarhan
The Daily Reveille
The LSU Veterinarian School houses the Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Lab, the state’s only laboratory that diagnoses animal diseases, where three horses from Texas are being treated for a potentially fatal respiratory and neurological illness.
The horses are being treated for equine herpesvirus at LSU Diagnostics, the campus lab that gives out various tests like rapid polymerase chain reaction tests and buffy coat blood tests. These tests were how the horses’ infections were uncovered.