Risk-Based Vaccination Protocols for Horses
Haylie Kerstetter
April 26, 2025
Veterinarians administer risk-based vaccines based on a horse’s potential to contract certain diseases.
Veterinarians administer risk-based vaccines based on a horse’s potential to contract certain diseases.
Learn about signs of Potomac horse fever, treatment, and prevention.
Determining exactly which vaccines a horse needs can be confusing. Here are some basic do’s and don’ts to make sure you’re providing the disease protection your horse needs.
The guidelines make new recommendations for core and risk-based vaccines for horses. The committee further emphasizes that routine vaccinations are considered essential during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Not all diseases have cut-and-dried diagnoses. In this article, veterinarians walk us through actual cases of three tough-to-diagnose diseases: botulism, EPM, and Potomac horse fever.
A veterinarian walks us through diagnosing and treating this infectious disease.
The attending veterinarian of the Rockingham County horse says PHF is uncommon in the area.
While some types of diarrhea in horses present little to worry about if watched carefully, others can be life-threatening. Read more about this condition’s causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
The state’s first two cases of 2019 occurred in Essex and Norfolk counties.
PHF is a serious disease in horses and expensive to treat, say veterinarians. Find out your options.
When a horse spikes a fever without the nasal discharge and other respiratory signs you’d expect to see with an infectious disease, the potential causes could be vast. In some parts of the country, a tick-borne disease could be a culprit.
Reported diseases included African horse sickness, atypical myopathy, contagious equine metritis, salmonellosis, and more.
Commonly called Potomac horse fever (PHF), equine neorickettsiosis can result in fever, colic of variable severity, diarrhea, abortion, and other clinical signs.
Find answers to questions about equine infectious anemia, Potomac horse fever, parasites, and more.
Officials reported diseases including African horse sickness, equine influenze, strangles, EHV-1, EIA, and more.
Confirmed diseases include equine influenza, equine herpesvirus, piroplasmosis, salmonellosis, rabies, and more.
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