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Horse Health
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Your Horse and Dangers of Lyme Disease
Lyme disease should be considered when a horse exhibits symptoms ranging from weakness, lameness, lack of appetite, and behavioral changes to kidney failure, heart disease or neurological disorders.
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Equine Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome - What Horse Owners Need to Know
Equine acute respiratory distress syndrome is now recognized as a rare cause of respiratory failure in several veterinary species including horses.
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Research Reveals Mitigation Strategies to Prevent Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Transmission to Equids
Vesicular stomatitis is a viral disease of horses and other livestock which is endemic in southern Mexico and only occasionally moves northward into the United States.
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Every Breath Horses Take Affects Every Move They Make
The horse's muscle and heart function adapt and improve with conditioning, but the oxygen capacity of its respiratory system does not.
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Therapeutic Shoeing - Would It Benefit Your Horse?
Therapeutic horseshoeing is utilized for laminitis, navicular disease, hoof cracks and defects, coffin bone injuries or disease, infections such as canker, white line disease and abscesses.
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First Quarter 2020 Report on International Diseases in Horses by The Equine Disease Quarterly
The Equine Disease Quarterly is published in January, April, July, and October each year by the Department of Veterinary Science, University of Kentucky.
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AAEP Publishes African Horse Sickness Guidelines
African Horse Sickness is a highly important World Organization for Animal Health OIE-listed equine disease and a transboundary disease in the U.S.
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Sugar Promotes Chronic Inflammation in Horses
Major health issues, including obesity, insulin resistance, PPID, and laminitis, are precipitated and maintained by low-grade, chronic inflammation which can be caused by long-term consumption of feeds high in sugar and starch.
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Equine Influenza Virus—A Neglected, Reemergent Disease Threat
Increased international commerce in horses, along with difficulties in controlling EIV with vaccination, could lead to emergent EIV strains and potential global spread.
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Texas A&M and Horse Industry Vigilant against Incursion of African Horse Sickness
State, federal agencies and the U.S. horse industry are monitoring the African horse sickness situation and determining how to prevent the deadly horse disease from crossing our borders.