Disease Outbreak: The story of one horse and three diseases

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English - May 20, 2022 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
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Dr. Jennie Ivey, Equine Extension Specialist at the University of Tennessee, shares the real story of how a simple research project resulted in a disease outbreak. Dr. Ivey was studying best practices of refeeding starved horses and took on a bit more than she bet on for this project, when horses they had purchased at auction succumbed to three diseases all at once.

Learn how to keep your horses safe, and why biosecurity is so important, especially in horses with compromised immune systems.

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