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Horse Health
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Five People Wait Anxiously after Horse with Hendra Virus Dies
Five people from Murwillumbah face an anxious wait, after coming into contact with a horse killed by Hendra Virus - a zoonotic disease that can be transmitted from horses to humans.">New window.
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Little Stress for Mares When Foaling
Foaling in horses is extremely fast. Labor and the active part of foaling, resulting in delivery of the foal, take 10 to 20 minutes and are considerably shorter than giving birth in humans or in cows.
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Recent Stem Cell Research May Benefit Horses
Researchers who are the first to create working nerve cells from horse stem cells say the advance may pave the way for cell therapies that target conditions similar to motor neuron disease.
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B.C. Couple Creates $300,000 Equine Orthopedics Research Fund at University of Saskatchewan
The DuMonts have pledged three yearly installments of $100,000 to the fund with the goal of encouraging researchers at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine to conduct equine orthopedic research â particularly in horses that compete and perform in
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Equine Disease Monitoring System Can Help Horse Owners Stay Informed
This outbreak of EHV-1 is believed to have first surfaced in barrel horses near the Twin Cities.8 After its initial detection, several equestrian events were canceled or postponed.
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Strongyles as Parasites and How They Affect Your Horse
Approximately 33% of the samples that are examined by Horsemenâs Laboratory are positive for worm eggs, and over 95% of those positive samples are due to strongyle eggs.
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Horse Vaccinations for West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis Highly Recommended
The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry is cautioning horse owners to vaccinate their animals against the potentially deadly West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis diseases.
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Warming Weather Brings Mosquito-borne West Nile Virus to Horses and Humans
As with humans, most horses infected with the virus do not show symptoms or become sick, but according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in a third of horse-related cases with critical symptoms, the horses die.
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Vesicular Stomatitis Reported in Texas
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reported Vesicular Stomatitis (VS), in the State of Texas with five horses confirmed as having the viral disease. The confirmed cases are in Kinney County, southeast of Del Rio.
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Horse Health Research Presented at Woodbine
Ontario Veterinary College researchers shared some of their latest results during a presentation at Woodbine racetrack with the goal of reaching out to the "backstretch family" of trainers, riders, jockeys, grooms, veterinarians and others who contribute