Strangles -- United States
Since 20 Feb 2018 there have been 2 horse quarantines in Alachua County due to the illness known as "strangles". And the disease is causing some concern for participants in upcoming horse shows.
Strangles acts very similarly like the flu does for people, but it's a horse specific bacterial infection. Dr Erica Lacher is an equine veterinarian and she explained, "It was once called strangles because it could cause horses to strangle, but with the invention of antibiotics it's much easier to
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5662307&promed&0
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