Strangles?

[alove4horses]

I would like to know more about strangles- I do know that it involves a high fever, swollen lymph glands and horses who have been diagnosed should be quarentined. What are the treatments for it and how is it transmitted?

[striderrider]

Horses can get it from other horses (ones incubating the disease, ones recovering from the disease, or ones just carrying the disease). They can also get it from contaminated items (buckets, floors, walls, pastures, fences, water troughs, brushes) –and even flies. The bacteria will survive out in the environment for several weeks. The horse may ingest it or breathe it in. Also if you have it on your clothes/hands from touching an infected horse and travel to another barn it can spread that way. It's very contaigious...