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MAF Biosecurity has given the all-clear to all the horses recently imported from Australia which were tested for equine influenza (EI). Horses that had been in contact with the recent imports had also tested negative, MAF Biosecurity director, post border, Peter Thomson, said. "There is currently no...
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Stuff NZ
Date of publication :
09/04/2007
Views:
132
Racing officials warned the government three years ago that changes to quarantine procedures could lead to an outbreak of equine influenza like that now devastating Australia, Prime Minister John Howard said Monday.The government had received a letter from the Australian Racing Board (ARB) with such...
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AFP
Date of publication :
09/03/2007
Views:
319
DNA technology is causing a revolution in every area of the sciences at the present time, and also by diagnosing gastrointestinal parasites in horses.A Danish Ph.D. student from the University of Copenhagen has developed a new diagnostic method to detect equine bloodworms, Strongylus vulgaris. The b...
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Engormix.com
Date of publication :
08/30/2007
Views:
411
Two new species of bacteria have been discovered in the gut of horses. Streptococcus henryi and streptococcus caballi, were found by accident by University of Queensland veterinary science PhD student Gabriel Milinovich while researching the hoof-deteriorating disease laminitis. Mr Milinovich made t...
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University of Queensland press release
Date of publication :
08/29/2007
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203
Australia has quarantined 79 horses on concern they may have been exposed to equine influenza, a highly contagious virus never previously found in the country, Agriculture Minister Peter McGauran said. One horse being kept at a government quarantine facility at Eastern Creek in western Sydney has sy...
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Bloomberg/Sydney Morning Herald
Date of publication :
08/24/2007
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464
The OSU Center for Veterinary Health Sciences reports that Dr. Lara Maxwell, Assistant Professor of Physiological Sciences, has received a grant from Grayson Jockey Club to study the efficacy of an antiviral drug to fight Equine Herpes Virus Type I (EHV-1).“This virus can affect horses of any age, b...
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Oklahoma State Center for Veterinary Health Sci.
Date of publication :
08/22/2007
Views:
160
During the first 30 days of life, newly born horses (called "foals") are especially sensitive to bacteria and other dangers commonly found in their every day surroundings. Each year between January and June, dozens of these foals are brought to Virginia Tech's Marion duPont Scott Equine Medical Cent...
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Virginia Tech News
Date of publication :
08/17/2007
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145
The US Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) proposes to amend its regulations so that noncompetitive entertainment horses from countries affected with contagious equine metritis (CEM) can be temporarily imported into the United States under certain condition...
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USDA APHIS
Date of publication :
08/09/2007
Views:
132
How the horse sees the world and the colours they can see is something that horse people have wondered about for many years. Researchers in the US have performed a study to investigate what colours horses could distinguish. In humans, light is detected by specialised receptors in the retina at the b...
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Equine Science Update / Horse Talk
Date of publication :
07/30/2007
Views:
230
Equine scientists will work on developing research tools to discover genetic factors in horses which influence inherited and common horse diseases, such as tying up, heaves, laminitis and osteochondrosis. The research is being made possible by the Morris Animal Foundation's Equine Consortium for Gen...
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Horse Talk
Date of publication :
07/24/2007
Views:
193