International Equine Disease Report, Fourth Quarter 2018
Reported diseases included African horse sickness, atypical myopathy, contagious equine metritis, salmonellosis, and more.
Reported diseases included African horse sickness, atypical myopathy, contagious equine metritis, salmonellosis, and more.
Officials reported diseases including African horse sickness, equine influenze, strangles, EHV-1, EIA, and more.
Strangles is highly contagious and can spread rapidly through horse populations and barns, so quick containment is essential. One veterinarian offers his tips on how to stop strangles from spreading.
Confirmed diseases include equine influenza, equine herpesvirus, piroplasmosis, salmonellosis, rabies, and more.
Dr. Joe Lyman of Neogen describes the disease known as strangles and how it’s spread.
Routine horse vaccinations are one of the easiest and most efficient ways to protect equids’ health against potentially fatal infectious diseases.
Dr. Kathleen MacMillan will discuss strangles’ clinical signs, diagnosis, and treatment, as well as ways to reduce the risk of infection on July 11.
Officials confirmed cases of equine influenza, EHV, equine infectious anemia, and other equine infectious disease outbreaks.
The ACVIM published a new consensus statement on treating, controlling, and preventing strangles in horses.
Use this four-step plan to keep equine infectious diseases in check.
A veterinarian can help determine risk factors in your area, the best time for vaccination, and what is right for each individual animal.
A good wipe-down with sanitizing agent might work well on wood, concrete, and plastic, but nylon equipment is harder to properly disinfect, researchers found.
The protein-based vaccine protected more than 80% of horses from contracting strangles in a recent study.
A veterinarian offers advice the steps to take if your horse could have been exposed to an infectious disease.
About 75% of the horses at the facility contracted strangles, and all have fully recovered.
A technique developed to investigate strangles helped scientists understand the bacteria behind human sore throats.
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