Once-Over Grooming
Nancy S. Loving, DVM
April 18, 2020
Grooming gives you visual and tactile information about your horse’s health.
Grooming gives you visual and tactile information about your horse’s health.
Spending time with our horses (when possible) and others (virtually) is critical as we all grieve the loss of normal.
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) hosted a global webcast as humans—facing a health crisis of their own due to COVID-19—try to protect horses and prevent the spread of AHS during the disease’s current outbreak in Thailand.
The state of California has issued the following guidelines for equestrian facilities to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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.
The race meet’s end opens barn space for further separation and isolation of trainers’ horses.
Are there any special considerations I need to make when hauling, housing, and showing my healthy senior gelding?
For the first time, Australian researchers have confirmed 15 cases of chlamydial respiratory infection in neonatal foals. Scientists had previously only detected the bacterium in a few adult horses.
Equine coronavirus is a relatively new discovery in equine medicine. Here’s what you need to know about this pathogen.
No new VSV-infected premises were identified in Nebraska or Utah. Colorado and Wyoming added new cases and premises.
According to a Sept. 19, 2019, USDA update, the number of newly affected premises has dropped for first time in five weeks.
Use these disease prevention strategies to protect your horse on the farm, at the horse show, and in the breeding shed.
To protect horses and other livestock in Ohio, the state is not allowing the import of horses from counties with confirmed and suspected cases of the highly contagious vesicular stomatitis virus.
Horse owners in the southwestern and western U.S. should be aware of the current VS outbreak situation and implement aggressive vector mitigation and biosecurity strategies to protect their horses.
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.
Officials lift quarantine enacted following Carroll County, Indiana, mare’s death and diagnosis.
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