PreventionSeveral measures can be taken to minimise the risk of strangles on a
yard; - Try and avoid contact with horses of unknown origin
- Make sure a yard
doesn’t become overcrowded
- If horses are introduced, keep them
in quarantine for a few weeks to observe the onset of any clinical
signs. Care must then be
taken with personnel attending
the isolated horses – they must not move from the isolated
horses to the other horses on the establishment
- Reduce sharing of
tack or equipment from horses of unknown health
status
- Restrict movement of people onto the premises who have arrived
from an affected yard
- Minimise the risk of horses on the yard
coming into physical contact with horses on neighbouring yards whose
health status
is not known
- Vaccinate* if the horse is at risk of contracting the disease, and ensure that
new animals
arriving
onto the
yard have an up-to-date vaccination program.
*Please note that all batches of Equilis StrepE have been withdrawn from the market. An update on its availability can be found here.
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