Last week The Horse’s staff attended the International Conference on Equine Infectious Disease (ICEID) in Lexington, Ky. This six-day event brought together the world’s leaders in equine infectious illness, including veterinarians, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and other horse-industry professionals. Topics covered included equine herpesvirus, West Nile virus, immunology, reproduction, parasitology, international movement of horses, and many more.

I have to admit, these types of events are one of the coolest things about my job in equine publishing. We editors at The Horse and TheHorse.com get to sit in on sessions that detail top-level information about the health of our horses;  we then happily translate and share that information with you via videos, news articles, and the print magazine. We also get to integrate what we learn into how we  care for our own horses