Equine disease control

List risk factors for horses catching an infectious disease

Stress eg transport, sudden changes in diet / timeline

Poor nutrition

Overcrowding

Contact with lots of human and horses

Frequent yard movement

Lack of immunisiation

Define biosecurity

prevention of contagious infectious disease carried on / off a farm or other premesis by animals or people

Define infetion control

Prevention of spread of a contagious diseae within farms, hospitals or other animal premeses

Name two notifiable equine disease that are endemic in the UK

Contagious equine metritis

Viral equine vasculitis

List 7 contagious non-notifyable equine diseases

1. equine herpes virus

2. equine coital exanthema

3. strep equi equi

4. rhodococcus equo

5. lawsonia intracellularis

6. salmonall + clostria (diarrhoeal)

7. eequine influenza

Who is most at risk from zoonotic infections and what could they catch from horses?

elderly, young or immunocomprimised people.

• salmonella, clostridia, cyptosporidium, rhodococccus, MRSA, dermatophysis (ringworm) rabies

Why are traveling horses most at risk?

HIgh stress can cause reoccurance of latent / persisant disease, and increaed shedding

Stress can compromise immmune system

High fecal matter on transport

stocking densitiy

HIgh exposure to other horses

Describe how to properly isolate a horse

Disinfect all stables and tools prior to arrival

Only persons in PPE handle horse

Clean equpiment and slef after every use

No horse within 100m of stable

Own bowls, food, water, muckheap

How can ambulatory vets help with biosecurity?

Gloves, hand gels, shoe/ boot covers, equipment disinfection