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Title: Equine Diseases


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Equine Diseases
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  • Infectious Diseases
  • Broadly categorized as
  • Parasitic
  • Bacterial
  • Viral
  • Non-infectious diseases
  • Environmental
  • Nutritional
  • genetic

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Respiratory Diseases
  • Caused by bacterial or viral agents, anatomical
    problems, allergic responses, or combination
  • Sinusitis
  • Sinuses become inflamed
  • Rarely contagious
  • Palate Elongation

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Respiratory Diseases
  • Bleeders
  • Pulmonary hemorrhage
  • Seen frequently in racehorses
  • Choking or difficulty obtaining air
  • Heaves
  • Allergic equine respiratory diseases
  • Rhinopnemonitis
  • Herpesvirus
  • Especially in foals

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Respiratory Diseases
  • Influenza
  • Pinkeye
  • Strangles
  • Pleuropneumonia
  • Abcess pneumonia

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Digestive Diseases
  • Choke
  • Colic
  • Abdominal Pain
  • Stops eating and drinking
  • Potomac Horse Fever
  • Caused by bacterium, Ehrlica risticii
  • Antibiotics are effective

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Other Common Diseases
  • Tetanus
  • Lockjaw
  • Due to suffocation
  • Starvation
  • Dehydration
  • Botulism
  • Sleeping Sickness
  • Vesicular Stomatitis
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