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WEST NILE VIRUS FROM THE FRONT LINES Bill Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, is a veterinary epidemiologist in the Veterinary Preventive Medicine Department at The Ohio State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. Since 1999, Saville has been part of a team of health educators, administrators, and state officials who have been organizing Ohio's response to West Nile virus (WNV). The state's first case of a bird infected with WNV was identified in 2001, and last year, the virus had a significant impact on Ohio's bird, horse, and human populations.
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THE OHIO WEST NILE VIRUS EXPERIENCE When Bill Saville, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, was asked to form the Ohio West Nile Virus Working Group in late 1999, the disease was still a distant concern in New York City, where health officials had identified the first North American case of the virus in a dead crow in August 1999. By December 2000, the health problem was literally on Ohio's doorstep when the virus was detected across the state line in Erie County, Pa.
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EQUINE WEST NILE VIRUS CASE IN ARKANSAS Arkansas state veterinarian Paul Norris, DVM, announced last week that a horse in the Ft. Smith area had been infected with West Nile virus. Testing on the Sebastian County horse was completed at USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratory.
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IVERCARE NEWS
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NINE EEE CASES IN GEORGIA According to several Georgia newspapers, Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) has struck nine horses in the southern part of the state. Only three cases were documented in Georgia in 2002.
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MINIATURE HORSE KILLED BY PIT BULLS According to the Midland Daily News, in Midland county, Mich., the Sheriff's Office reported that a 17-year-old miniature horse was killed by two pit bulls early May 19.
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CARNIVOROUS HORSES Last October, we shared letters from three readers describing horses killing and/or eating small mammals and birds. We followed up by asking our readers and others for their experiences. All told, through the magazine or directly, we have had feedback from nearly 100 readers. The responses have come from horse owners, trainers, veterinarians, biologists, animal behaviorists, and equine scientists from all over the world.
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...A LANDMARK GUIDE TO HORSE BEHAVIOR
Sue McDonnell, PhD, Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, has already helped you decipher your horses' behaviors in the numerous behavior columns we've referenced in this e-newsletter. Now you can be one of the first to own her new book, The Equid Ethogram: A Practical Field Guide to Horse Behavior.
This is the first comprehensive catalog of horse behaviors. An invaluable reference for researchers, veterinarians, students, and horse enthusiasts, this user-friendly guide contains descriptions and diagrams of horse behaviors, from grazing to harem formation to self-mutilation. Learn more by purchasing this book from Exclusively Equine.
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FRANGIBLE PINS: MAKING CROSS COUNTRY JUMPS SAFER A company in the United Kingdom (U.K.) has created a jump design to lessen the severity of cross-country falls. In 1999, several U.K. riders died from accidents on cross-country jumps. The resultant study committee hired the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), an expert in transportation safety, for scientific investigation, data analysis, accident investigation, and engineering.
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AAEP ASK THE VET: PROUD FLESH
Q. My horse had a cut on his lower cannon bone and my vet gave me instructions on how to wrap it to prevent proud flesh. What is proud flesh, and can it really become a problem, or is he being overly cautious?
A. Click here for the answer.
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IT'S ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM AN ULCER Give a horse a job--be it racing, endurance, show jumping, barrel racing, eventing, or reining--put him in a stall, don't keep hay or feed in the stomach to buffer acid, and limit his turnout, and you invite gastric ulcers.
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REWARD OFFERED IN CALIFORNIA ABANDONED HORSE INCIDENT There are still no clues as to the identity of the person or persons who left a badly malnourished and injured horse in a riverbed west of the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway last month, according to the Whittier Daily News. However, a reward for information in the case was offered May 7, officials said.
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: THE 2003-2004 HORSE SOURCE!
This brand-new edition of the industry's only all-breed, all-discipline directory of equine goods, products, and services is now ready to ship! The Horse Source bound volume is mailed free to the 40,000+ paid subscribers of The Horse: Your Guide To Equine Health Care. Also, the entries are seen and searched by many more thousands of horse owners online.
Wouldn't it be great to have a bound volume of The Horse Source
2003-2004? Buy your copy at Exclusively Equine.
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NEW HORSEQUEST WEB SITE Cooperative Extension professionals from 13 land grant institutions in the southern United States have combined their equine knowledge and launched a comprehensive web site of peer-reviewed horse information. The group put www.Horsequest.info online in early April.
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AAEP HEALTH LINK: DOES YOUR VACCINE PROGRAM NEED AN OVERHAUL?
Many farm animals, including the horse, receive no antibodies from the mother while in the uterus. Youngsters must acquire antibodies from the mare's first milk (colostrum). The quality and quantity of these maternal antibodies depend on the mare's immune status and the ability of the foal to absorb the antibodies. To read more about vaccination programs, click here.
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MATCHMAKING: ADOPTABLE HORSE OF THE WEEK
Ryerss Farm for Aged Equines is preparing to bring 25 foals to the East coast from North Dakota this year as part of the group's fifth annual NAERIC (North American Equine Ranching Information Council) Foal Adoption Program. Potential adopters can click here to download an application form or can obtain a form by contacting Ryerss directly. Forms must be filled out and returned to Ryerss by no later than July 15, 2003.
Click here for more information, or e-mail ryerss@aol.com.
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