Equine Diseases

1
Equine Diseases
2

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

3
Respiratory Diseases

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

4
Respiratory Diseases

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

5
Respiratory Diseases

• Influenza
• Pinkeye
• Strangles
• Pleuropneumonia
• Abcess pneumonia

6
Digestive Diseases

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

7
Other Common Diseases

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