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horses, bats exposure to feces, urine, saliva or contact with sick horses Hepatitis E: Hepatitis E virus: domestic and wild animals contaminated food or water Histoplasmosis: Histoplasma capsulatum: birds, bats inhaling fungi in guano HIV: Simian immunodeficiency virus: non-human primates
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Nigropallidal encephalomalacia or Chewing disease is a neurological condition that affects horses that have eaten certain toxic plants. Affected animals are unable to prehend food because of lip and tongue paralysis, and may appear to keep their jaws open with the tongue protruded because of reduced jaw tone. [ 1 ]
A medical condition is a broad term that includes all diseases and disorders.. A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism.. A disorder is a functional abnormality or disturbance.
Horses cannot pass the disease among themselves; that is, one horse cannot contract the disease from another infected horse. The horse is a dead-end, or aberrant, host of the parasite. Although all horses are believed to be susceptible to EPM the disease is usually found in younger horses typically around three to six years of age. [ 2 ]
DENVER (Reuters) -An unknown and highly contagious disease has killed 85 wild horses in less than a week at a federal corral in Colorado, officials said on Wednesday, revising the number upward ...
First symptoms are usually muscular weakness, soreness and stiffness causing problems with walking and breathing. Within hours of first symptoms horse may be unable to stand and in 72 hours of the onset of signs mortalities may occur. [16] [13] [1] The mortality rate of atypical myopathy is high; only 30-40% of affected horses survive. [9]