How Mosquitoes Impact Horses
Equine Disease Quarterly
June 28, 2019
Learn which mosquitoes can transmit disease and how to manage populations on your farm.
Learn which mosquitoes can transmit disease and how to manage populations on your farm.
They might be small, but these flying fiends can spread some deadly diseases.
An equine internal medicine specialist explains how horses contract EEE and how owners can reduce the likelihood of infection.
These pests can transmit a variety of dangerous pathogens, depending on certain factors in your region.
The 7-year-old Quarter Horse gelding will be euthanized. Two other horses on the index farm have been quarantined.
Six horses from Holmes, Osceola, Suwannee, and Washington counties tested positive for EEE. One is recovering and the other five were euthanized.
Texas Animal Health Commission officials have placed each horse’s home facility under quarantine.
The affected 18-year-old Quarter Horse gelding developed clinical signs on June 7 and subsequently tested positive for both EHV-1 and EPM. The horse had been vaccinated and is recovering.
Work with your veterinarian to ward off this potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease.
South Carolina had one of the lowest incidences of EEE in the Southeastern U.S. in 2018, and animal health officials hope owners will keep horses’ vaccines current to maintain those low case numbers.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed that a horse from the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, Subdivision B, was EIA-positive on May 29.
The Idaho State Department of Agriculture said a horse transported back to Canyon County from Washington in May tested positive for EIA.
Butte County public health officials say they’re concerned about an increased number of mosquitoes capable of transmitting WNV due to late-season rainstorms and more breeding sites in the 2018 Camp Fire burn zone.
The Horse: Your Guide to Equine Health Care/TheHorse.com and the EPM Society have formed a media partnership designed to help horse owners care for horses with equine protozoal myeloencephalitis.
With routine blood work and a strategic supplementation protocol, you can help your horse avoid the negative consequences associated with vitamin E deficiency. Here’s how.
The EHV-1-positive horse died in quarantine due to an unrelated medical issue, not EHM (which develops when EHV affects the central nervous system), the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture said.
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