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The opossum passes the parasite through feces. Horses contract EPM from contaminated feed or water. 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.
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]
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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 .
DENVER (Reuters) -An unknown and highly contagious disease has killed 85 wild horses in less than a week at a federal corral in Colorado, officials said on Wednesday, revising the number upward ...
The horse industry and the veterinary industry strongly suggest that the risks posed by infected horses, even if they are not showing any clinical signs, are enough of a reason to impose such stringent rules. The precise impacts of the disease on the horse industry are unknown. [citation needed]
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 ...
This helps to account for allegedly solid horses producing spotted offspring, called cropouts. [7] The long-standing practice of categorizing Paint horses in this manner contributed to the incorporation of the word "overo" into some of the titles used to describe the disease, such as overo lethal white foal syndrome. [4]