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New Case of Strangles Reported in Florida Horse
"Separating or quarantining a horse at the earliest signs of strangles is important because the disease is highly contagious and may be passed from one horse to another via nasal secretions and pus from ruptured abscesses in the lymph nodes.â
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Feed a Miniature Horse as a Horse – With Some Caveats!
âThe vast majority of experts agree that a miniature horse retains the horse phenotype and its metabolic characteristics and are scaled down versions of their full-sized friends with the same nutritional requirements.â
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New Case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Confirmed in Horse in Florida
âEastern Equine Encephalitis virus attacks the central nervous system and unvaccinated horses are very susceptible to the infection with the disease appearing within five days after a mosquito transmits the virus to the horse.â
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New Case of Eastern Equine Encephalitis Confirmed in New York Horse
âThe Wayne County Public Health Department received notice of a positive report for Eastern equine encephalitis in a horse in the town of Galen in Wayne County, according to the New York State Department of Health Arbovirus Laboratory.â
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Horse Digestive Problems and How They Relate to Horse Anatomy
âColic is simply a general term meaning abdominal pain and by limiting the proven risk factors as much as possible can go a long way toward keeping a horseâs GI tract operating smoothly.â
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New Cases of Infectious Horse Diseases Reported Nationwide
âGetting statistics for mosquito-borne diseases in horses is difficult, and state officials say they expect up to four unreported cases for each confirmed case of West Nile virus and Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis, making the actual impact larger than
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Fact or Fiction: Horses and Colic Surgery
âThanks to improvements in surgery techniques, suture materials, and anti-inflammatory medications, horses are recovering from colic surgery better than ever before.â
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From Egg to Larva to Fly - It's the Season for Bot Activity in Horses
âThe principal damage caused by the bot is to the stomach lining of the horse and in extreme cases, bots can cause a stomach rupture or fatal colic if they block the stomach valve to the small intestine.â
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West Nile Virus Disease Confirmed in Kentucky Horse
âAccording to the AAEP, West Nile virus is the leading cause of arbovirus encephalitis in horses and humans in the United States, with horses representing 96.9% of all reported non-human mammalian cases of West Nile Virus disease.â
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How Does The Environment Affect Strongyle Development? What Horse Owners Should Know
âIt has been demonstrated that 80% of the pasture contamination by strongyle eggs is from the 20% of the horse herd that are high shedders while the 80% of the horses that are found to be low shedders account of only 20% of the contamination.â