Equine Organism ID

Week 4

Rabies

• AKA: N/A

• Classification: Viral (Contagious Bite)

Rabies

Symptoms• In body 2-9 before symptoms

• Paralytic Form (Paralysis of throat and jaw)

• Excess salivation

• Pass to humans easily

Rabies

Treatment• Symptoms Fatal

• Unvaccinated Quarantine for 6mo; vaccinate at 5mo

• Vaccinated Rabies booster, observe for 45 days

Hendra Virus

• AKA: N/A

• Classification: Viral• Contaminated food from flying fox

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Hendra Virus

Symptoms• Australia (1994)

• Respiratory

• Neurological

Treatment• 70% positive death

• Pass to humans fatal

• Equinevac HeV vaccine• November 2012

• Available

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

• AKA: MRSA

• Classification: Bacteria

MRSA

Symptoms• Skin or nasal passages

• Colonized No symptoms

• Infected Symptoms

• **Surgery site or skin wound

• Infection/pneumonia

Treatment• Call vet

• Isolate animal