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Discussion on New Article: Ticks and Horses
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DrO
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Posted on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 2:26 pm:
Ticks occur worldwide and besides the irritation they can cause there are serious tick-borne diseases that have severe clinical signs. Some of the diseases that you and your horse can get from a tick bite include:
Note that when both horses and humans contract similar diseases often it is differing species of the organism.
Piroplasmosis (also known as Horse Tick Fever, Babesiosis, and Theileriosis)
Ehrlichiosis, now identified as Anaplasmosis in the horse
Lyme disease
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (humans)
Southern tick-associated rash illness (humans)
Tick-borne relapsing fever (humans)
Tick Paralysis (humans and horses?)
Tularemia (humans)
This article discusses their life cycle and some of the things you can do to avoid you and your horse from getting bit. Links to tick-borne diseases of horses is provided.
To access article click Ticks and Tick-borne Disease of the navigation bar above.
DrO
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Member:
andym
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Posted on Tuesday, Jun 9, 2009 - 9:04 pm:
We have exposure of our hoses to deer ticks. In people, the deer tick causes Lyme's disease and maybe others. What is the disease or problem caused in horses ?
When ticks are found on a horse, what is a satisfactory means of removal ?
I have a friend's horse boarding here with mine and would hate to have a problem.
AndyM
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Member:
andym
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Posted on Tuesday, Jun 9, 2009 - 9:13 pm:
Dr O
I clicked on Ticks and Tick-borne diseases but it just brings up your list of diseases. No discussion about symptoms or impairment of the horse affected. Would those be the same as that for people ?
As usual,thanks for your response
andym
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Moderator:
DrO
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Posted on Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009 - 8:19 am:
Hello andym,
We are suffering from "server upgrade" today andym, so the article is atrophied. We should be by later today so check back the article helps answer your question.
DrO
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Member:
andym
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Posted on Wednesday, Jun 10, 2009 - 9:46 am:
Dr O
Thanks for the "server upgrade" explain.
I'm not the greatest on a computer and was surfing all over trying to figure out what "I" was doing wrong.
I'll be patient and get to the discussion later today.
andym
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