This highly-contagious infection affecting susceptible foals can be hard to control during an outbreak; researchers are developing new vaccines.
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Equine Herpesvirus 1 does everything it can to circumvent and trick the immune response, making better vaccines difficult to produce.
Helping foals survive and thrive who have lost or been rejected by their dams, from birth to four months of age.
Some of the newer lameness detection systems and imaging tools provide early diagnosis, especially beneficial to horses that perform at speed.
Gastric ulcers can be found in any horse but tend to occur most frequently in equine athletes involved in racing, endurance, and showing.
Eight types of botulinum neurotoxin exist and all horses are susceptible, from foals to adults, to this potentially fatal disease.
Thoroughbreds comprised the largest population of a study at the UK which looked at infections of these extensive air-filled cavities.
This most severe form of pneumonia associated with long-distance shipping often requires long-term hospitalization to resolve.
Any abnormal behaviour should be dealt with quickly, as sepsis carries the risk of infection and inflammation in many of the body's systems.
This essential nutrient readily found in green grass may be lacking in hay-fed stabled horses, in which case supplementation is key.