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Horse Health
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Role of Equine Respiratory Viruses in Diseases
Determining the cause of an equine respiratory disease is often difficult, and as a result, treatment options are limited. Veterinarians see the horse because of weight loss, fever, coughing, increased respiratory rate and nasal discharge, but are often
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Similarities in Obesity in Horses and Humans
According to Philip Johnson, professor of veterinary medicine and surgery at the University of Missouri-Columbia, âThere is a striking parallelism between humans and horses when it comes to obesity. Some of the very same problems humans encounter wit
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Strange Horse Behavior May Be Caused by EPM
With many horses being put out into spring time pastures, or grazing along trails, the scientists at Bayer Equine Connection are reminding horse owners about the potential for Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis which affects the horse's central ne
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Strangles Cases Bring Horse Racing Cautions
Because of the  outbreak of strangles at Saratoga Raceway in New York, racing officials in Canada and throughout the United States are cautioning horse owners not to enter horses in races that participated are were located at the Saratoga race track dur
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Strangles Vaccine and Your Horse
Show season is in full swing and many owners are traveling with their horses to events across the country. Keeping horses healthy when traveling can present challenges. Increased travel can increase potential exposure to risk based infectious diseases.
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Study of Pathogens Will Help Prevent Disease Spread
In a study supported by Merck Animal Health (formerly Intervet Schering Plough)  which started in 2008 and is ongoing, lead study author Nicola Pusteria, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis, laun
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Summer Challenges to Equines
In some parts of the United States, this is turning out to be the hottest, driest year in quite some time. With hot, dry weather, horses face a number of health challenges.
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Technique for Identifying Disease-carrying Midges Developed
There are over 4,000 species of biting midges in the Ceratopogonidae family, and over 1,000 in just one genus, Culicoides. The distribution of midges in the genus Culicoides is world-wide; 47 species are known to occur in Florida. Species belonging to the
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Three Wisconsin Horses Dead from EEE
The Chippewa County Department of Public Health reports that three horses in the county have died from Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE). The Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL) recently reported the positive test results to the Wisconsin D
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Tick Season is Here
With the arrival of fall weather, ticks are in search of a good meal to continue their on-going life cycle, and this means more tick bites for all warm blooded animals.