Can horses become addicted to opioids? What precautions should veterinarians recommend to horse owners abut using Bute? Is acupuncture actually effective? Earl Gaughan, DVM, DACVS, covers these questions and more in this episode of Disease Du Jour.

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The Foundation for the Horse is the charitable arm of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP). It focuses support in three areas: education for equine veterinarians, students, and grad students; supporting research projects and seminars; and providing benevolence (aiding working equids, at-risk horses and horses in transition, and disaster relief). In this episode, Dr. Rick Mitchell talks about the Foundation, what it does, and how you can help.

AAEP: AAEP.org

Foundation for the Horse: foundationforthehorse.org

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Episode 39 of the Disease Du Jour podcast focuses on Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) and has a bonus webinar from Dr. Maureen Long. Watch the webinar here.

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Early in the pandemic, EquiManagement teamed with Amy Grice, DVM, MBA, owner of Veterinary Business Consulting, to survey veterinarians to see how they were faring in the face of COVID-19. As a follow-up, we again teamed with Grice to survey veterinarians as we move into the fall of 2020. In this episode, we speak with Grice about the key takeaways from that survey.

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Do you know the difference between probiotics and prebiotics? Have you used fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)? Have you heard of dysbiosis (also called dysbacteriosis), a term for a microbial imbalance or maladaptation on or inside the body, such as an impaired microbiota?

In this episode of Disease Du Jour, Dr. Marcio Costa discusses the equine microbiome.

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Don't miss the presentation that accompanies this episode! Check out "West Nile Virus—A Continuing Threat to Horses" presented by Dr. Maureen Long.

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Dr. Wendy Vaala talks about equine influenza.

In this podcast episode we will cover:

• Why is it so hard to keep horses from getting equine influenza?
• Vaccination is a horse's best protection, especially for horses that travel
• How can we get owners to vaccinate more?
• What is "flu season" and when should we vaccinate in order to offer the best protection?
• Glycoproteins of the influenza virus membrane, hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA), are important
• What have we learned from the Biosurveillance Survey?
• Better to test than guess!
• How can vets know when they need to re-vaccinate in flu-prone areas or in the face of influenza in their regions?

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In Episode 34, Dr. Chrissie Schneider gives some tips and opinions about how to talk to horse owners about vaccination schedules and how to reclaim vaccinations from the do-it-yourselfers.

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In this episode of Disease Du Jour, we discuss tick-borne diseases in horses with Dr. Tom Divers, focusing primarily on Lyme disease and anaplasmosis.

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In this episode, we talk to Dr. Alan Dorton about microchips for horses that read body temperature through a smartphone app.

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