Blister Beetles and Alfalfa: A Potentially Lethal Mix
Equine Disease Quarterly
January 2, 2016
Don’t get caught unaware. Ingesting just a handful of these beetles could kill your horse within 72 hours.
Don’t get caught unaware. Ingesting just a handful of these beetles could kill your horse within 72 hours.
Confirmed diseases include vesicular stomatitis, herpesvirus, influenza, Getah virus, and strangles, among others.
Horse owners should rely on information refereed by experts and civic authorities for validity during disasters.
Horses with anhidrosis don’t produce an adequate amount of sweat. Here’s what to know about this condition.
Reported diseases include vesicular stomatitis, equine infectious anemia, strangles, influenza, herpesvirus, and more.
Learn how the respiratory, reproductive, and neurologic forms of equine herpesvirus-1 can impact your horse.
With a mortality rate of 90% in horses, EEE is a serious mosquito-borne disease.
A 2014 outbreak at a Japanese racing stable re-awakened awareness of Getah virus and its threat to horses.
Despite the enormous positive impact of these horses and donkeys, their health isn’t always a top priority for owners.
The economic impacts of 2014 vesicular stomatitis outbreak were felt within the equine industry at multiple levels.
Tyzzer’s disease primarily affects foals’ livers, causing necrotizing hepatitis (liver disease).
Learn how to remain weather-aware and ensure people and horses are in safe places before severe weather strikes.
Reported diseases include equine herpesvirus, strangles, equine viral arteritis, contagious equine metritis, and more
Long-distance travel has potential complications for horses including colic, injury, and shipping fever.
Infections can be reduced by recognizing the risk and having appropriate cleaning, disinfection, and hygiene protocols.
Early recognition of emerging and re-emerging diseases is of paramount importance if their impact is to be minimized.
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