As with humans, horses can become very ill from the normal influenza virus.  Although most horses can and do make a full recovery from the disease, those with a compromised immune system, and in particular very old and very young animals, are at a higher risk of succumbing to their illness.  Additionally, secondary infections such […]

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Also known as swamp fever, this devastating disease is mainly prevalent in the southern United States, as well as in some areas of Canada.  The disease is spread through the bites of blood-sucking insects such as mosquitoes.  As a mosquito bites an infected horse, then moves on and bites an uninfected horse, the second horse […]

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