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Horses cannot pass the disease among themselves; that is, one horse cannot contract the disease from another infected horse. The horse is a dead-end, or aberrant, host of the parasite. Although all horses are believed to be susceptible to EPM the disease is usually found in younger horses typically around three to six years of age. [ 2 ]
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The movement of horses at an animal welfare charity's farm has been suspended after a mare tested positive for a highly infectious respiratory disease. A recent arrival at World Horse Welfare's ...
N. hughesi has been implicated as the cause of clinical disease in Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) cases. There have been no cases of EPM caused by Neospora species outside of the United States interestingly. [13] It is estimated that EPM causes symptomatic disease in roughly 1% of horses exposed to the sporulated oocysts. [2]
How do these 1,000-pound healers work their magic on humans? New documentary 'How Horses Heal,' Oct. 10 at Chatham Orpheum, gathers survivors' tales.
Potomac Horse Fever (PHF) is a potentially-fatal febrile illness affecting horses caused by the intracellular bacterium Neorickettsia risticii. PHF is also known as Shasta River Crud and Equine Monocytic Ehrlichiosis .
Three horses survive, for now. Trainer Heath Taylor has had to euthanize seven horses after an outbreak of EIA at his Los Alamitos barn. Three horses survive, for now.
Horses heterozygous for the Ile118Lys mutation on the equine EDNRB gene—carriers of lethal white syndrome—usually exhibit a white-spotting pattern called "frame", or "frame overo". [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 9 ] [ 13 ] Frame is characterized by jagged, sharply defined, horizontally oriented white patches that run along the horse's neck, shoulder, flank ...