Equine Strangles: An Old Disease in a Modern World
Karen Hopper Usher
May 19, 2025
Biosecurity measures remain a critical component to combating ‘strep throat for horses.’
Biosecurity measures remain a critical component to combating ‘strep throat for horses.’
Antimicrobial-resistant infections continue to challenge veterinarians and compromise horse health. Here’s what practitioners are doing to curb it and how you can help.
Infectious diseases such as equine herpesvirus can be spread via exposed horses and on equipment. Here are the best ways to avoid this and keep your horses healthy.
Horse shows and events can act as petri dishes for infectious agents. Learn about the common pathogens horses encounter and how to protect your horse from them.
Here’s how to handle a strangles outbreak in your barn and prevent the disease in the future.
Regular, strategic vaccination is a safe, effective method to greatly minimize the chances of deadly diseases impacting your herd.
Taking these steps can help rid your barn of the strangles-causing pathogen.
Determining exactly which vaccines a horse needs can be confusing. Here are some basic do’s and don’ts to make sure you’re providing the disease protection your horse needs.
What vaccines should horses have on board prior to show season?
This common and highly contagious respiratory disease affects horses worldwide.
Regular, strategic vaccination is a safe, effective method to greatly minimize the chances of deadly diseases impacting your herd. Learn more in this article from the April 2022 issue of The Horse.
In horses, guttural pouches can be the source of various bacterial and fungal infections. A veterinarian explains how empyema, chondroids, mycosis, and other conditions can afflict these structures.
The funding will help veterinary scientists improve these large animals’ well-being by preventing and treating health challenges such as equine herpesvirus, strangles, and fungal infection.
It’s the most frequently diagnosed equine infectious disease in the world. Find out how researchers are working to develop better detection methods and vaccines for strangles.
Researchers found that while any of the three tested qPCR diagnostic approaches can be effective in diagnosing true strangles cases, one stood out.
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.
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