IVEY, Ga. (AP) — A 12-year-old Georgia girl may have died as an indirect result of a severe lice infestation that may have gone on for years, investigators said.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The state veterinarian says four horses have been sickened with anemia in middle Tennessee.

Tennessee's health department said Wednesday that the horses from a farm in Rutherford County tested positive at a laboratory for equine infectious anemia.

A news release from the health department says the disease is not contagious to humans. It is a blood-borne illness that can be fatal for horses. Symptoms may include fever, weakness, swelling, appetite loss or colic.

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — State officials say a horse in northern Colorado contracted a rare incurable disease called equine infectious anemia, and about 240 other horses may have been exposed to it.

The Greeley Tribune reported Saturday the horse tested positive in late August and was euthanized.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials are advising horse owners in Tennessee to take precautions after three horses tested positive for viruses that infect the blood.

State veterinarian Charles Hatcher said in a news release Friday that a horse in Davidson County and a horse in Knox County recently contracted West Nile virus.

Also, a horse in Bedford County tested positive for equine infectious anemia.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an incurable animal disease has now been confirmed in two more Kansas horses.

The Kansas Department of Agriculture's Division of Animal Health said Wednesday that it has received confirmation that a horse in Finney County and another in Kearny County have tested positive for Equine Infectious Anemia.

Earlier this month, six horses in Finney County also tested positive for the disease.

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Six horses at a Finney County facility will be euthanized after becoming infected with equine infectious anemia.

The Kansas Department of Agriculture said in a news release Friday that it was contacted this month about a positive test for the disease. All the exposed horses were tested and five other horses tested positive. Because the disease isn't curable, the animals will be euthanized.

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Amy Frohnmayer Winn, the last of David and Lynn Frohnmayer's three daughters, died Sunday, according to her family.

After living her 29 years with the rare disease Fanconi anemia, which killed her two older sisters, she came to the end rapidly, her brother, Mark Frohnmayer, said Monday.