Neurologic disease showing up in area horses

Apr 3, 2025
Apr 3, 2025

Opossums, racoons and other hosts can transmit EPM to horses by contaminating their feed. Prevent the disease by keeping wildlife out of grain.
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Lainie Kringen-Scholtz

Tri-State Neighbor Columnist

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Lainie Kringen-Scholtz

Veterinary medicine moves quickly. When I first started practicing in 2017, it was thought that equine protozoal myeloencephalitis was just a disease that happened in every direction around us, but not here. Unfortunately, I have been finding high titers for EPM in our area lately. Here is what you need to know.

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Lainie Kringen-Scholtz, DVM, is veterinarian and owner of True North Veterinary Health in Wentworth, S.D. Reach her at truenorthveterinaryhealth@gmail.com or PO Box 117, Wentworth, SD 57075.