Other Equine Diseases (part 2)

Question 1

treatment and prevention of sleeping sickness

Answer 1

T- no treatment

P- mosquito control and annual vaccinations

Question 2

Swamp fever

Answer 2

AKA - Equine Infectious Anemia or Swamp fever

• a viral disease
• diagnosed by coggins testing of blood

Question 3

Swamp fever symptoms

Answer 3

• anemia
• fever
• weakness
• weight loss
• edema
• possibly death

Question 4

Swamp fever cause

Answer 4

The virus is spread by bloodsucking insects and repeated use of needles or instruments without adequate sterilization between animals

Question 5

Swamp fever treatment and prevention

Answer 5

T-no vaccine and no effective treatments

P-fly control and use of disposable needles between horses

Question 6

Tetanus AKA

Answer 6

Lockjaw

Question 7

Tetanus symptoms

Answer 7

• spasms and rigid muscles
• inability to eat or drink
• death due to suffocation, starvation, or dehydration

Question 8

Tetanus cause

Answer 8

Neurotoxin produced by bacterium Clostridium tetani

Question 9

Tetanus treatment and prevention

Answer 9

T-persistent treatment and nursing care

P-vaccination

Question 10

Vesicular stomatitis symptoms

Answer 10

• blisters on the tongue, teats and soles of the feet and the coronary band
• drooling

Question 11

Vesicular stomatitis cause

Answer 11

-insects and that movement of animals

Question 12

Vesicular stomatitis treatment and prevention

Answer 12

T-protect from secondary infections in the lesions 
P- restrict the movement of animals
- disinfect trailers and stalls 
-control insects
-vaccination