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Horse Health
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New Survey Seeks to Better Understand Management of Equine Cushing's Disease in Horses
The online survey is designed for horse owners, to better understand how they manage horses or ponies with PPID, and what important factors are for them: ability to feed separately and cost of medications.
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New Cornell Study Reveals a Piece in Persistent Equine Allergies Puzzle
Our findings suggest that this specific type of white blood cell communicates to the rest of the immune system even when there are no allergy symptoms therefore helping initiate and maintain allergic responses.
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Tips for Reducing Flies on Your Horse
Besides being annoying, flies can carry diseases to horses and humans; therefore it is important to reduce the number of flies around your property.
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Dr. Slovis's Six Tips on How To Prevent & Treat EHV-1 In Horse
A horse's temperature will usually spike prior to shedding significant amounts of the EHV-1virus, and typically anything greater than 101.5 F should be considered a fever.
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Research to Improve Survival of Horses with Diarrhea and Critically Ill Foals Now Underway
According to an OVC resident study, 3/10 horses with acute diarrhea do not survive the illness so the goal of new research is to develop a rapid, cost effective treatment to reduce the mortality rate in horses
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Here to Stay: West Nile Virus
First diagnosed in a horse in California in 2003, the state became the WNV disease epicenter in 2004, with 540 confirmed equine clinical cases and virus is now endemic and here to stay.
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New Study Investigates Whether Obesity Is a Risk Factor for Asthma in Horses
"We want to better understand the mechanism of asthma to help guide future studies looking at different therapies or ways to prevent disease."
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Could Osteochondrosis or Cystic Lesions Be the Cause of Lameness in Your Young Horse?
The causes of lameness in young horses can usually be divided into developmental and degenerative conditions.
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Preventing Equine Asthma Spectrum Conditions
Equine Asthma Spectrum is a broad term introduced a few years ago to align descriptions of the progression of respiratory conditions in horses with those found in people.
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"Tis the Season for Allergies to Make a Horse's Life Miserable
If a horse has a healthy immune system, fighting off allergens will be easy, but, if the immune system is compromised in any way, allergies can become a serious problem.