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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.
Neospora hughesi is an obligate protozoan apicomplexan parasite that causes myelitis and equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) in horses, and has only been documented in North America. [1] EPM is a neurological disease from lesions in the spinal cord , brain stem , or brain from parasites such as N. hughesi or Sarcocystis neurona . [ 2 ]
The sporulated oocysts are excreted in the feces of the opossum. Horses are aberrant or dead-end hosts, because only schizonts and merozoites have been identified and confined to the brain in spinal cord after a horse has ingested sporocysts in contaminated water and feed. This disease cannot be passed from horse to horse. [3]
Parascaris equorum is a species of ascarid that is the equine roundworm. Amongst horse owners, the parasites are colloquially called "Ascarids". This is a host-specific helminth intestinal parasite that can infect horses, donkeys, and zebras. Horses up to six months of age are the most susceptible to infection.
Trainer Heath Taylor has had to euthanize seven horses after an outbreak of EIA at his Los Alamitos barn. Three horses survive, for now. Seven horses die at Los Alamitos amid a viral disease ...
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In fact, as long as our environment is suitable for the ticks' hosts − deer, possums, squirrels, foxes, armadillos, field mice, rats, cows, horses − whatever the tick likes, the ticks are ...
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 ...