EHV-1: What Are We Learning?
Heather Smith Thomas
January 3, 2017
This potentially fatal infectious disease continues to challenge the horse industry, but our experiences are teaching us how to prevent its spread.
This potentially fatal infectious disease continues to challenge the horse industry, but our experiences are teaching us how to prevent its spread.
Of the 242 respondents, 175 have talked to their vet about a health issue they learned about in The Horse.
The 22-year-old horse died after a period of illness and receiving treatment from a private veterinarian.
Lecture topics will include vaccinations, disease surveillance, foal nutrition, R. equi, biosecurity, and more.
Influenza continues to represent a serious infectious disease threat to humans and animals alike.
Is the leptospirosis vaccine for swine and cattle safe for equine use?
The Queensland, Australia, parliament has determined that the Hendra vaccine is safe and effective.
The bacterium that causes this seasonal disease can infect horses from the late spring to fall in temperate areas.
Cultures from both human and horse tested positive for S. equi spp zooepidemicus.
Farriers should practice smart biosecurity to prevent potential equine disease spread among properties.
The same bacterium causes two very different conditions in horses. Dr. Craig Carter explains.
The incidence of Lyme NB appears low, but this could be, in part, due to the lack of a gold-standard ante-mortem test.
Leptospirosis is a serious bacterial disease that causes both recurrent uveitis (“moon blindness”)—especially in Appaloosas, draft horses, and Warmbloods—and abortion in horses. But now there’s a vaccine to prevent it. Is your horse is at risk?
Of the 458 respondents, 158 (34%) said they do not know what leptospirosis is.
The USDA licensed a vaccine for use in pregnant mares to protect against leptospirosis, one cause of abortion in horses.
Arizona reported a WNV case, Michigan confirmed two EEE cases, and West Virginia found WNV and PHF cases.
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