Types of Equine Respiratory Disease
Peter Heidmann, DVM, MPH, Dipl. ACVIM
December 24, 2022
Learn more about equine asthma, acute respiratory infections, and shipping fever in horses.
Learn more about equine asthma, acute respiratory infections, and shipping fever in horses.
After testing horses during a 2022 EHV-1 outbreak, researchers found even those showing no signs shed common respiratory pathogens.
Follow these steps to prevent disease spread on your farm.
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Veterinary authorities recommend these vaccines for all horses, every year.
Consider these horse health- and safety-oriented design aspects when building or renovating your barn.
The FEI veterinary committee proposed 13 ways to improve biosecurity at equestrian events.
Disease control focuses on prevention through increased biosecurity protocols.
Here’s how to protect your horse from this highly contagious respiratory virus.
Remember these three core biosecurity steps to help keep your horses as well as your fellow competitors’ horses healthy.
One survey found 84% of veterinarians didn’t use PPE or wash their hands between equine dental patients. One researcher says biosecurity should be the expectation, not the exception. Find out why.
The AAEP revised the cutoff for a temperature to be considered a fever, resources on integrated pest management, and guidelines clarifying regulatory involvement’s role in outbreak situations.
Vaccination and quarantine play key roles in controlling infectious respiratory pathogens such as equine influenza virus.
Taking temps daily, whether rectally or via a microchip with an integrated temperature biosensor, can help you catch and track outbreaks.
When doctors diagnosed West Nile virus neurologic disease in a Sicilian man, they immediately started a chain of events leading to massive testing of nearby horses, dogs, birds, and mosquitoes to find the outbreak’s source.
Equine biosecurity might become easier thanks to new in-field tests using recently developed isothermal technology, which could detect infected horses in less than an hour.
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