Lyme Disease and Shipping Stress
Richard D. Mitchell, DVM
April 1, 2005
We have a horse on antibiotics for Lyme disease. Will the stress from the trip cause a flare-up in this disease?
Horse-health-problem risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
We have a horse on antibiotics for Lyme disease. Will the stress from the trip cause a flare-up in this disease?
Would black walnut tree shavings be safe to use as trail mulch?
Farms with large acreage and many mares and foals are more likely to have cases of R. equi foal pneumonia than smaller farms with fewer horses, according to a recently published Texas A&M University (TAMU) study.
Farms with large acreage and many mares and foals are more likely to have cases of R. equi foal pneumonia than smaller farms with fewer horses, according to a recently published Texas A&M University (TAMU) study. Additionally, farms
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Though cases of strangles at Palm Meadows Training Center in South Florida appear to have been confined, the five positive tests for Streptococcus equi set in motion a chain of events up and down the East Coast.
New York Racing
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As part of its response to an equine health concern at a barn in Columbia, Md., the Maryland Department of Agriculture reports that the situation is stable and that every measure is being taken to determine the illness that caused three horses t
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In all, 49 horses–43 Thoroughbreds
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Vibrations of the soft palate are the probable source of expiratory sounds recorded in horses with dorsal displacement of the soft palate (DDSP), says Jeremy Burn, BEng, PhD, lecturer in equine science in the department of anatomy at the
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