Horse-health-problem risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment
Learn about this highly contagious virus, how it spreads between horses, why it’s important to diagnose, ways to minimize chances of infection, and how to diagnose and treat the disease.
Healthy horses handle frigid temperatures better than we do, but their extremities still are vulnerable to frostbite.
Thirty horses remain under quarantine due to an equine herpesvirus outbreak at the Oklahoma racetrack.
Of 150 horses exposed, one has died, one is confirmed positive, and two are affected but unconfirmed.
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The 18-year-old mare was euthanized and her farm is under official quarantine.
Opossums are the culprits that transmit the causative parasite of EPM to horses. Dr. Dan Howe of the University of Kentucky recommends making an effort to keep them out of the barn and away from the food and water supplies.
The race meet’s end opens barn space for further separation and isolation of trainers’ horses.
The deceased horse resided in Palm Beach County.
State officials have not confirmed any new equine herpesvirus-1 cases.
Kentucky officials continue to restrict Remington Park horses from entering the state’s tracks and training centers.
Prolific equine internal medicine and infectious disease researcher and educator was recognized Dec. 10 for his contributions.
The second of two barns remains under quarantine due to confirmed EHV- cases.
Monitoring has revealed that no additional horses contracted EHV-1.
Not all diseases have cut-and-dried diagnoses. In this article, veterinarians walk us through actual cases of three tough-to-diagnose diseases: botulism, EPM, and Potomac horse fever.
A steady nutrient supply of mare’s milk is crucial for the functioning of intestinal cells that produce incretins, which in turn influence energy regulation in neonates.
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