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Although horses can pass diseases to people, you are not likely to get sick from touching or owning them. However, when you do common chores with horses, such as cleaning stalls, grooming them, and picking out their feet, you are probably touching manure without knowing it. To protect yourself from getting sick, you should thoroughly wash your hands with running water and soap after contact with horses or their manure. Horses can carry different germs that make people sick. Some of these germs are common and some germs are rare. |
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| Diseases Horses Can Give to People | |
| Campylobacter Infection (campylobacteriosis): A bacterial disease associated with various animals, including horses. | |
| Cryptosporidium Infection (cryptosporidiosis): A parasitic disease associated with various animals, including horses. | |
| Leptospira Infection (Leptospirosis): A bacterial disease associated with dogs, livestock, rodents, and wildlife. | |
| Ringworm: A fungal disease associated various animals, including with horses. | |
| Salmonella Infection (salmonellosis): A bacterial disease associated with horses and other farm animals. | |
| Diseases Horse Can Get | |
| Equine Herpes Virus | Equine Infectious Anemia |
| Equine Viral Arteritis | Vesicular Stomatitis Surveillance |
| Biosecurity - The Key to Keeping Your Horses Healthy | |
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| Eastern and western equine encephalitis surveillance | West Nile virus surveillance |
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| As of May 8, 2008, only Alabama has reported Equine WNV case | |
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Mosquito season has just started,
so they don't have a WNV map yet for 2008 |
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