Equine Respiratory

Question 1

Signs of equine influenza

Answer 1

Acute fever, cough, serous (clear) nasal discharge

Question 2

Equine influenza incubation period

Answer 2

1-3 days

Question 3

How long equine influenza vaccine lasts

Answer 3

Ab 6 months

Question 4

2 strains of equine herpes virus

Answer 4

EVH 1 and EVH 4

Question 5

Difference between EVH 1 and 4

Answer 5

EVH1= abortion, septicemia, neurologic (myeloencephalopathy) 
EVH4= rhinopneumonitis

Question 6

What is myeloencephalopathy

Answer 6

Neurologic disease affecting spinal cord and brain

Hindlimb weakness, incoordination, limp tail, loss or bladder tone

Question 7

What is Rhinopneumonitis

Signs

Answer 7

URI in young (usu <3 yrs)

Fever, depression, purulent discharge, cough

Question 8

how is EVH spread

Answer 8

Inhalation or ingestion

Question 9

How diagnose EVH

Answer 9

Ab titer or virus isolation

Question 10

There are vaccines against all form of EVH accept for

Answer 10

Neurological form

Question 11

What is equine influenza

Answer 11

Epizootic viral resp disease, primarily URI

Question 12

Which EVH Strain is reproductive form

How does it affect young

Answer 12

EVH 1: can cause sudden abortion during late gestation or foal septicemia (virus affects foal in uterus, born weak, high fatality)

Question 13

EVH 1 vaccine vs EVH 4 vaccine

Answer 13

EVH1: prevents abortion (give ya 5,7, and 9 months gestation) killed
EVH4: protects against respiratory form

Question 14

COPD is also called

Answer 14

Heaves (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Question 15

What is heaves/ COPD (what causes it? )

Answer 15

Non-infectious resp disease, thought to be due to hypersensitivity + allergens

Question 16

Which equine respiratory disease is known as a “disease of domestication”

Answer 16

Heaves/ COPD

Question 17

What causes heaves/COPD

Answer 17

Repeated exposure to dust / allergens like moldy hay

Question 18

Early signs of heaves

Progressive signs

Answer 18

Early: dry hacking cough, rales heard upon auscultation
RR and cough increase upon exercise (normal at rest)
Progresses: extreme rales, resp effort occurs even at rest, cough more frequent w spasms. Heave line may develop

Question 19

What a heave line looks like

Answer 19

Muscles develop around abdomen

Question 20

How to treat and prevent heaves

Answer 20

Remove allergen exposure asap
Also treat w antihistamines or bronchodilators
Feed dust free feeds, good ventilation

Question 21

What kind of disease is strangles

What it causes

Answer 21

Infectious and contagious respiratory disease

Causes URI and serious sequella (consequences ) may occur

Question 22

What causes strangles

Answer 22

Streptococcus equi ss equi

Question 23

Signs of strangles

Answer 23

Acute onset, fever, anorexia, thick mucopurulent discharge, soft/moist cough, swollen lymph nodes that break open

Question 24

Incubation time of strangles

Answer 24

3-6 days

Question 25

Possible sequella of strangles

Answer 25

Aspiration pneumonia, bastard strangles (spreads to other nodes within the body)

Question 26

How to treat strangles

Answer 26

Antibiotics and supportive care