How Mosquitoes Impact Horses
Equine Disease Quarterly
June 28, 2019
Learn which mosquitoes can transmit disease and how to manage populations on your farm.
Horse-health-problem risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
Learn which mosquitoes can transmit disease and how to manage populations on your farm.
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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.
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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.
The mare resided near Scone in the Upper Hunter Valley. This is the farthest south a case of Hendra in a horse has been diagnosed.
Work with your veterinarian to ward off this potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease.
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