Admitting there’s a "YOU" in "Fugly": Unwanted Horse Coalition Meets in...
Who’s Fugly today? Fugly Horse of the Day is a blog that delivers a swift kick to the sensitive parts of the horse world. Anyone who thinks he or she is insulated from charges of cruel or questionable...
View ArticleUSDA Announces Interim Rule Regarding the Importation of Horses from...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending its regulations regarding the importation of horses from countries affected with contagious equine...
View ArticleEHV Paradigm Shift Part 1: National Case Reporting System Coordinated Through...
After a week of reports of Equine Herpes Virus Type 1, also known as "neurologic EHV" or "nEHV", cases and positive tests among a group of cutting horses who attended an event in Utah earlier this...
View ArticleEHV Paradigm Shift, Part 2: AAEP, American Horse Council Urge Responsible...
In light of an outbreak of equine herpes virus, type 1, in western US states and western Canada provinces, the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) and the American Horse Council (AHC)...
View ArticleEquine Herpes Virus in Tennessee? University Equine Hospital Quarantined by...
The Tennessee State Veterinarian has placed the Equine Hospital at the University of Tennessee Veterinary Medical Center under a seven day quarantine. The Veterinary Medical Center expects to maintain...
View ArticleHorse Slaughter in the News: Taking a spin on this emotional issue
The news about the recent Congressional vote on an agriculture budget that included funding for horse meat inspection--and President Obama's subsequent signing of that bill into law--has been reported...
View ArticleKentucky Horse Breeders: Nocardioform Placentitis Suspected in Fetus
Craig N. Carter, DVM PhD, Director & Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Kentucky's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (UKVDL) in Lexington, Kentucky issued a notice to area veterinarians...
View ArticleLoose Wetback Horses Found to Carry Disease With Them into Texas from Mexico
How do equine diseases--and the horses that carry them--get into the United States? Sometimes they just walk in. That's what happened in Texas recently. The Texas Animal Health Commission is reporting...
View ArticleAVMA and AAEP urge strong enforcement of Horse Protection Act at Tennessee...
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) urge veterinarians, owners, trainers, riders, event spectators, media and the public to...
View ArticleFeel the Sting and Know the Symptoms of West Nile Virus: Meet Batman, a Polo...
What are the signs that a horse has West Nile Virus? This story includes an AQHA video showing the symptoms, and details efforts at Palm Beach Equine Medical Center on Long Island in helping an...
View ArticleMid-Summer Score: West Nile Virus 16, Eastern Equine Encephalitis 52 as New...
As the summer progresses, so does the toll of mosquito-borne diseases, and some new states are being added to the list of those where horses are affected by disease. Today we add West Nile Virus in a...
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