Core Equine Diseases Can Be a Death Sentence
Edited Press Release
October 25, 2017
The threat of deadly equine diseases like rabies is closer than you think. Vaccines can help protect your horse.
Horse-health-problem risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
The threat of deadly equine diseases like rabies is closer than you think. Vaccines can help protect your horse.
Dr. John F. Timoney retired from the UK Department of Veterinary Science in 2016 after 34 years.
This rare, but potentially catastrophic, complication occurs in less than 1% of colic surgery patients.
It’s been said that as long as there are horses, they will colic. This remains true, but survival rates are improving.
If diagnosed and treated promptly and properly, survival rates can be quite high for equine elapid snakebite patients.
A digestive health course will be free for the first 50 registrants from each of Ontario’s three racing sectors.
Necrotizing enterocolitis is a serious disease in foals less than 4-6 days of age that’s associated with a high death rate, despite therapeutic interventions.
The 12-year-old unvaccinated mare was euthanized following the sudden onset and progression of neurologic signs.
However, more severe bleeding in the lungs was significantly associated with decreased racing performance.
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Mares discharged from the clinic following surgery have an excellent prognosis for survival and producing foals.
The vaccination history for the affected Quarter Horse mare from Kay County is unknown.
Two unvaccinated horses from different farms in Marquette County tested positive for EEE and have been euthanized.
The unvaccinated yearling Quarter Horse filly is responding to treatment.
An Oswego County horse tested positive for EEE and horses in Cayuga, Erie, and St. Lawrence counties contracted WNV.
Florida horses tested positive for EEE and WNV and a Kentucky horse was euthanized after contracting WNV.
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