Horse-health-problem risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
The ongoing Equine Respiratory Biosurveillance Program revealed new information on infectious respiratory disease threats, including EHV-1 and EHV-4, influenza, S. equi, equine rhinitis A/B viruses, and more. Here’s what you should know.
The 24-year-old pony mare began exhibiting clinical signs of disease on April 5 and was subsequently euthanized.
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Two horses that attended the NRCHA Stallion Stakes, which took place March 30-April 6 in Las Vegas, tested positive for EHV-1. Additionally, an unrelated case was diagnosed in a Clark County horse with neurologic signs.
The positive horse attended a reining event in Ardmore, Oklahoma, the week of March 18. Since that competition, the horse has not traveled to any other event and is under the care of a Brazos County veterinary hospital.
Reported diseases included African horse sickness, atypical myopathy, contagious equine metritis, salmonellosis, and more.
The University of Saskatchewan’s Western College of Veterinary Medicine will cover the fee associated with the necropsy of aborted fetuses, stillbirths, or euthanized foals suspected of having Warmblood fragile foal syndrome to gather additional information about the genetic disease.
Commonly called Potomac horse fever (PHF), equine neorickettsiosis can result in fever, colic of variable severity, diarrhea, abortion, and other clinical signs.
When riding your horse in the woods or the wilderness, things can go wrong–and usually when least expected. Here are some possible predicaments you might face while out on the trail.
In each county, a Quarter Horse tested positive for EIA in March, and both affected horses have been euthanized.
The Equine Disease Communication Center reported April 8 that four Quarter Horses from Polk County, Iowa, have tested positive for EIA.
The affected 15-year-old Quarter Horse mare is quarantined at her home facility in Johnson County along with 19 other horses.
Appropriate use of vaccination and implementing biosecurity measures are critical to protecting the horse industry from outbreaks of highly contagious viruses, including equine influenza.
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A mare at a private facility aborted a pregnancy in late March. Tests confirmed the abortion was caused by EHV-1 infection, There is no evidence to suggest this case is connected to case diagnosed in Ada County earlier this month.
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