EPM: Update on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention

EPM is a tricky disease to definitively diagnose and treat and, thus, has been an area of much research.
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Editor’s Note: This article is part of TheHorse.com’s ongoing coverage of topics presented at the 9th International Conference on Equine Infectious Diseases, held Oct. 21-26 in Lexington, Ky.


Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) is a neurologic disease of horses found throughout North, Central, and South America. It’s a tricky disease to definitively diagnose and treat and, thus, has been an area of much research.

At the International Conference on Equine Infectious Diseases Practitioner’s Day, held Oct. 21 in Lexington, Ky., Dan Howe, PhD, a molecular parasitologist at the University of Kentucky Gluck Equine Research Center, provided veterinarians and horse owners with an update on current EPM diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and research

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Alexandra Beckstett, a native of Houston, Texas, is a lifelong horse owner who has shown successfully on the national hunter/jumper circuit and dabbled in hunter breeding. After graduating from Duke University, she joined Blood-Horse Publications as assistant editor of its book division, Eclipse Press, before joining The Horse. She was the managing editor of The Horse for nearly 14 years and is now editorial director of EquiManagement and My New Horse, sister publications of The Horse.

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