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National competitive trail mileage record holder Elmer Bandit, 38, passed away Feb. 14 in the pasture of his longtime boarding stable, surrounded by several friends and his lifelong owner, Mary Anna Wood. Following his final...

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You don’t know which horse is carrying herpesvirus, or when the virus might again become contagious. Learn more about EHV in this overview. Sponsored by Fort Dodge Animal Health

The C.L. Davis Foundation for the Advancement of Veterinary and Comparative Pathology is a 501(c)(3) organization. According to the organization’s Web site (www.cldavis.org), the Foundation presents more than 30...

What are the areas of disagreement on, or incomplete understanding of, the neurologic form of equine herpesvirus-1? Sponsored by Fort Dodge Animal Health

Maureen Long, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, associate professor in the department of infectious diseases and pathology at the University of Florida, spoke during the seminar on her experiences with a multisite outbreak of neurologic...

When we consider our goals in control of equine herpesvirus-1, owners and veterinarians want to to minimize respiratory disease, prevent abortion, and prevent myelitis (neurologic disease). Sponsored by Fort Dodge Animal...

One of the biggest debates raging about equine herpesvirus meyloencephalopathy (EHM, the neurologic form of EHV-1) is whether there is a single mutant strain that is in circulation that causes EHM; whether the wild strain can...