Horse-health-problem risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
Clostridial myositis is a rare but serious bacterial infection, which causes inflammation and death of muscle and release of bacterial toxins into the bloodstream.
It’s the most frequently diagnosed equine infectious disease in the world. Find out how researchers are working to develop better detection methods and vaccines for strangles.
The Lake County gelding was euthanized and exposed horses were quarantined.
Officials lift quarantine enacted following Carroll County, Indiana, mare’s death and diagnosis.
Do grazing muzzles cause stress or alter social behavior? Researchers tested a group of Miniature Horses to find out.
Tips include ensuring constant forage access, providing pasture turnout, and limiting concentrate intake, among others.
A veterinarian who examined the affected herd found no additional animals with clinical signs of VS.
A 3-year-old Arabian-cross gelding in Sumter County has been euthanized after contracting EEE.
Officials removed the jenny on Aug. 1 and have placed the affected BLM facility under quarantine.
Equine glandular gastric disease has a distinct pathology, risk factors, diagnostics, and treatment approaches.
A 22-year-old Quarter Horse mare in Barron County has been euthanized after contracting EEE.
Here are some biosecurity practices you can put into place at the clinic and on the farm to prevent salmonellosis.
We take a look back at seven eye-opening equine disease outbreaks in the past 100 years, including influenza in Australia, equine viral arteritis in North America, and African horse sickness in Spain.
Outbreaks have been confirmed in Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming in addition to a recent case in Tillman County, Oklahoma.
The 4-year-old unvaccinated mare was euthanized after veterinarians confirmed the disease.
The donkey filly did not survive the disease.
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