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Horse Health
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Glanders Identified In Lebanon Horses
According to sources in Lebanon, twenty-one race horses have been euthanized recently in an attempt to control the highly contagious Glanders disease.
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Glanders Quarantine To Continue Until March
According to Bahrainâs Daily News, no new cases of glanders have been reported for two months, since two horses were put down after testing positive last November, according to Ministry livestock director, Abdulrahman Shawqi Al Mannaie This means the
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Have Vet Check Scruffy Haircoat on Horse
With the warmer days of spring and summer approaching, veterinarians are cautioning horse owners to take a careful look at any horses that don't shed their haircoats in a timely manner, but instead develop a scruffy, unkempt appearance. The scruffy co
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Helen Woodward Equine Center Offers State-of-Art Services
The Helen Woodward Animal Center with several locations in San Diego County takes equine health and services seriously. Recently the Center began offering a unique service to help diagnose injured horses by adding a high- field Magnetic Resonance Imagin
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Could Chiropractic Adjustments Help Your Horse?
Horses being the big, active animals that they are often sustain injuries or develop diseases that affect their ability to move in a free, painless, and coordinated way.
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Hendra Vaccine Research Receives Funds
This has been an unprecedented year for deadly cases caused by the hendra virus in New South Wales and Queensland. The latest hendra case was confirmed yesterday when a horse on a north Brisbane property was euthanized after testing positive for the viru
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Could Your Horses Fall Victim to Botulism?
Botulism is a disease that affects not only horses, but also a wide variety of animals including humans. It is closely related to the organism that causes tetanus, but is more deadly. Clostridium botulinum is always present in the environment. Eight disti
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Hendra Virus Vaccine May Be Available in 2012
Dr Deborah Middleton from CSIRO's Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) has announced successful progress to develop a Hendra virus vaccine at the Australian Veterinary Association conference in Adelaide. "Our trials so far have shown th
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CSU Equine Herpesvirus-1 Research Study
A Colorado State University study will look at how equine herpesvirus type 1 may compromise the immune system immediately upon entering the âgateâ of a horseâs respiratory system â the airway and throat â allowing it to spread through the body a
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CSU To Study Spread of EHV-1 Through Body of Horse
A Colorado State University study will look at how equine herpesvirus type 1 may compromise the immune system immediately upon entering the âgateâ of a horseâs respiratory system â the airway and throat â allowing it to spread through the body a