Bacterial and Viral Diseases

1. What causes swamp fever in horses? What are the clinical signs and how do you test for the disease?

2. What causes warts on a yearling's nose? How should it be treated?

3.What disease(s) causes "sleeping sickness" in horses? How is the disease transmitted?

4. What is the most important aspect of treating a foal with diarrhea due to roto virus?

5. What are the clinical symptoms of rabies in the horse?

6.Name two horse diseases caused by Streptococcus species:

7. What diseaes of horses are "zoonotic"?

8. What causes Potomac Horse Fever?
9. Describe Lyme disease in horses:

10. Which disease(s) can occur as a result of "wound contamination"?
Leptospirosis Potomac Horse fever Glanders
Tetanus Botulism Tyzzers

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Updated March 2013
Prepared by J Atuk-Jones