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Horn fly bites and wounds are painful and cause blood loss and irritation in afflicted horses. Infested horses may lose weight and show painful lesions wherever the flies cluster. Diagnosis is by finding the bite wounds and the flies on the horse. Treatment of the bite wounds may require antibiotics to control bacterial or other infections.
Equine onchocerciasis is a disease caused by a parasitic worm and transmitted by biting midges. It causes skin lumps and crusty dry patches that are irritating. The life cycle of the worm begins when a midge takes a blood meal containing the larvae of the worm.
27 kwi 2021 · These flies can transmit anthrax, equine infectious anemia, anaplasmosis, and Habronema stomach worms. They breed in soggy hay, grain, feed, piles of grass clippings, and manure mixed with hay. They only visit the horse to feed, spending 80% of their time away from the host.
27 mar 2019 · Biting midges (Culicoides) also can infect a horse with Onchocerca, which are filarial worms that migrate beneath the skin or within the eye. The result is dermatitis of the neck, chest, withers, forelegs or abdomen, or uveitis of the eye, often as a reaction to dead or dying microfilaria.
Anisakiasis is a human parasitic infection of the gastrointestinal tract caused by the consumption of raw or undercooked seafood containing larvae of the nematode Anisakis simplex. Within a few hours of ingestion, the parasitic worm tries to burrow through the intestinal wall, but since it cannot penetrate it, it gets stuck and dies.
25 lip 2019 · Practicing good fly control can minimize the threat of the many common insect borne diseases that torment horses around the world. By Melanie Wallace for EQUUS magazine.
With an increasing risk of resistance to anthelmintics (wormers), it is vital that we adopt a proper worming strategy to protect our horses and ponies. This article sets out to answer both these questions.
