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  2. Lameness (equine) - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, horses with a hind limb lameness will tend to reduce the degree of leg use. To do so, some horses will reduce the contraction time of the gluteals on the side of the lame leg, leading to a "hip roll" or "hip dip" and appearance that the hip drops a greater degree on the side of the lame leg. [10]

  3. Pigeon fever - Wikipedia

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    Pigeon fever is a disease of horses, also known as dryland distemper or equine distemper, caused by the Gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis biovar equi. [1] Infected horses commonly have swelling in the chest area, making it look similar to a "pigeon chest". This disease is common in dry areas.

  4. Eastern equine encephalitis - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms include high fever, muscle pain, altered mental status, headache, meningeal irritation, photophobia, and seizures, which occur 3–10 days after the bite of an infected mosquito. Due to the virus's effect on the brain, patients who survive can be left with mental and physical impairments, such as personality disorders, paralysis ...

  5. Navicular syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Horses with a high weight-to-foot-size ratio may have an increased chance of exhibiting symptoms of navicular syndrome, since the relative load on the foot increases. This might explain why the syndrome is seen more frequently in Thoroughbreds , American Quarter Horses , and Warmbloods as opposed to ponies and Arabians .

  6. Theiler's disease - Wikipedia

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    The most current theory is a result of a recent study that suggests it is caused by a pegivirus, referred to as Theiler's disease-associated virus (TDAV). [2] Eight horses that had received prophylactic botulinum antitoxin and developed subsequent signs of Theiler's disease were subjected to a test for a viral infection based on RNA sequencing techniques.

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  8. Neil Young Explains Why He Canceled Crazy Horse Tour: 'My ...

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    And it was like, I felt sick when I thought of going on-stage,” the musician recalled. “My body was telling me, ‘You gotta stop.’ So I listened to my body.”

  9. Equine influenza - Wikipedia

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    Equine influenza is characterized by a very high rate of transmission among horses, and has a relatively short incubation time of one to three days. [6] Clinical signs of equine influenza include fever (up to 106 °F [41 °C]), nasal discharge, have a dry, hacking cough, depression, loss of appetite and weakness. [6]