Latest News – The Horse
Gene Check Announces SCID Testing
According to information from Gene Check, Inc., an announcement on February 23, 1998, stated that the company has completed development and testing of a test for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) in horses. SCID is a genetic disease of
Cosmetic Alteration Of Arabian Horses
Surgical alteration of any Arabian horse to enhance its appearance is not in the breed’s best interest.
A Deadly Cough
When foals get sick, horse owners can sometimes face many sleepless nights, as well as weeks or months of intensive management, to get these babies through the rough spots. One of the most common problems in the ill foal is pneumonia, caused by
The Sub-Fertile Stallion
When we consider that foaling rates overall range somewhere in the neighborhood of 55-60% it becomes instantly obvious that simply covering a mare and getting a foal are not a sure thing. The problem is not always with the mare.
Equine Education
Many professional horse people combine their vocation with their avocation, and many other horse people would like to do just that. According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, an avocation can be defined in the
Photo Therapy: AKA Therapeutic Laser
Over the past decade, physical therapy tools have gained a place of respect in the management of equine injuries. As we move toward the 21st Century, a medical philosophy is blossoming based on advice from Hippocrates, a physician who lived in
Contagious Disease: Care Not Fear
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Contagious Equine Metritis
There are at least 25 countries in the world where contagious equine metritis (CEM) exists, or has been known to exist sometime in the past, in the native equid population (meaning horses, mules, donkeys, etc.). These countries include
Equestrian Discipline: Driving
Driving can be an alternative career for a riding horse, but it can be dangerous for horses and humans.
Navicular Bursography
Navicular disease once was called ‘the last resort of the diagnostically destitute (practitioner),’ based on the syndrome’s ambiguous symptoms and the practitioner’s inability to isolate definitely the source of the horse’
McPhail Chair Has Web Site
The Mary Anne McPhail Dressage Chair in Equine Sports Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine is now present on the Internet (www.cvm.msu.edu/dressage).
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USDA Relieves Oklahoma Horse Import Restrictions
The USDA has added Oklahoma to the list of states approved to receive certain mares and stallions imported into the United States from regions affected with contagious equine metritis, a serious venereal disease of
Kentucky CEM Update
As of Feb. 18, three more horses had tested positive for a CEM-like organism in Kentucky. A Paint stallion and two pregnant mares were cultured positive for the organism on the original nurse mare farm in Kentucky where the organism that cause”P>As of Feb. 18, three more horses had tested positive for a CEM-like organism in Kentucky. A Paint stallion and two pregnant mares were cultured positive for the organism on the orig”>As of Feb. 18, three more horses had tested positive for a CEM-like organism in Kentucky. A Paint stallion and two pregn”As of Feb. 18, three more horses had tested positive for a CE”s
Independent Secondary Isolation of CEM in Kentucky
In a separate and unrelated incident, a second contagious equine metritis (CEM)-like organism was recovered from a jack in Kentucky which has no known association or relation to the California jack. Two Standardbred mares
CEM Epidemiological Survey and Action (California)
The contagious equine metritis (CEM)-affected jack in California is approximately 11 years old and has been owned by the same individual for 10 years since purchased at a local mule event. From purchase until
CEM Update From the USDA
Original Isolation (California) on Nov. 24, 1997, bacterial cultures were obtained from a mammoth donkey jack located in Sacramento County, Calif., in preparation to qualify his semen for export. Specimens were submitted to
