Veterinarians swapped ideas on hot topics in the realm of equine infectious disease in the Infectious Disease Forum at the 2004 American Association of Equine Practitioners Convention, held Dec. 3-8 in Denver, Colo. Steve Conboy, DVM, a private practitioner in Lexington, Ky., and Maureen Long, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, assistant professor of large animal veterinary medicine at the University of Florida, monitored the session.

USDA Equine Study to Begin in 2005
Josie Traub-Dargatz, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVIM, of Colorado State University, began the session by announcing that a new USDA National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) equine industry study will launch in 2005. The study will primarily focus on health management factors relating to the control of infectious disease and will have two components–an event component and an on-farm component

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