Myrna MacDonald Ridley

Myrna MacDonald Ridley manages communications at the University of Saskatchewan's Western College of Veterinary Medicine and produces Horse Health Lines, the western Canadian veterinary college's equine health publication.

Articles by: Myrna MacDonald Ridley

Equine Dentistry: Straight From the Horse’s Mouth


As a veterinarian with more than 20 years of experience in veterinary dentistry, James Anthony, DVM, Dipl. AVDC, offers a unique perspective on issues related to this specialized field, the growing recognition of dentistry’s

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West Nile Virus from the Front Lines

Bill Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, is a veterinary epidemiologist in the Veterinary Preventive Medicine Department at The Ohio State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. In the past decade, Saville has become widely recognized for his studies of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), a neurologic disease that has affected thousands of horses in the United States.
 
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The Ohio West Nile Virus Experience

When Bill Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, was asked to form the Ohio West Nile Virus (WNV) Working Group in late 1999, the disease was still a distant concern in New York City where health officials had identified the first North American case of the virus in a dead crow in August 1999. By December 2000, the health problem was literally on Ohio’s doorstep when the virus was detected across th

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