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Quick Tip: The Risk of Rabies Is Real for Horses
Alarmingly, horses are nearly four times as likely as dogs to get rabies and horses across the U.S. can be exposed to rabies through infected wildlife, bats, raccoons, foxes and skunks.
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Horse Skeletons Provide Clues to Preventing Racehorse Injuries
When pushed to race at high speeds, a horse's legs can fracture beneath them in an event called a breakdown. with seventy percent of these injuries occurring in the third metacarpal bone.
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Is Telemedicine the Answer for Horse Owners during the Pandemic
Telemedicine allows veterinarians to discuss cases and guide horse owners on how to manage a situation that doesn't require a visit,and then monitor cases from a distance.
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Three Louisiana Horses Test Positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Hot and wet conditions exacerbated by storms such as Hurricane Laura have increased the number of mosquitoes that could be carrying viral horse diseases.
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Hoof Care for a Horse with Laminitis and or Founder - Informative New Article Available on EquiMed.com
Founder is a nautical term meaning sink, so when the coffin bone rotates or sinks inside the hoof capsule, when the hoof bone bond fails, founder is a sequela (result) of severe laminitis.
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Hoof Care Top Tips, Myth Busters and Finding the Balance
You need to trim each foot to be in balance and not trim to make them look the same or to a fit a specific measurement.
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ColiCare™ Provides Peace of Mind When It Matters Most
SmartPak's colic surgery reimbursement program offers one horse owner the opportunity to save her best friend.
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Quality of Life for the Overweight, Insulin-Resistant Horse
If your horse's history is one where he has not had a steady supply of forage 24/7, often for years on end, the impact on his metabolism and his brain is very tough to reverse.
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Equine Diet and Laminitis - No Link to Fructan
There are no magic-bullet supplements to protect from laminitis - only an appropriate basic diet can help.
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AAEP Publishes Borrelia Burgdorferi Infection and Lyme Disease Guidelines
Despite the high prevalence of exposure and seropositivity to B. burgdorferi in horses residing in endemic regions, confirming clinical Lyme disease remains a diagnostic challenge.