Can Horses Fully Recover From EPM?
Michelle Anderson
May 31, 2022
Dr. Sarah Colmer shares how EPM recovery might vary among horses based on the severity of the disease.
Dr. Sarah Colmer shares how EPM recovery might vary among horses based on the severity of the disease.
EPM can be difficult to diagnose. Dr. Sarah Colmer explains how veterinarians use a neuro exam, bloodwork, and cerebrospinal fluid to confirm an EPM diagnosis.
Dr. Sarah Colmer shares management practices and preventive measures horse owners can implement to protect horses from EPM.
Dr. Sarah Colmer of the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center describes this neurologic disease and how horses contract it.
From imaging to diagnostic tests, vets have many ways to help horses with EPM, wobbler syndrome, and spinal cord injuries.
Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) is notoriously difficult for veterinarians to diagnose and equally tricky to treat. But there’s hope as researchers continue to investigate this neurologic disease. Sponsored by Kentucky Performance Products.
The group will convene later this year to share the current state of expertise in the neurologic disease’s key areas.
The most common horse vertebral issues seen over a decade at one diagnostic lab were wobbler syndrome, fracture/subluxation, and abnormal spinal curvature.
Regular, strategic vaccination is a safe, effective method to greatly minimize the chances of deadly diseases impacting your herd.
One horse tested positive, and six have been exposed.
The Quarter Horses from Lubbock and Kaufman counties have been euthanized.
One horse on a Ponoka County, Alberta, premises tested positive for equine infectious anemia.
Forty-six more horses were exposed.
The index case tested positive for equine infectious anemia while in Arizona.
State officials will continue working with local veterinarians and horse owners to monitor potentially exposed horses.
The case marks the state’s 20th equine case for 2021.
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