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 diseases 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
    Tyzzer's

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