Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
 October 3, 2009
St. Louis -- Purina is giving free horse feed to a family in Missouri who take care of six children and six rescue horses, as well as a family in Texas who volunteer with a therapy riding program. Both families are in upcoming episodes of the ABC television show ?Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.?
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
October 2, 2009
Roseland, N.J. -- Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health is donating 7,250 doses of EquiRab rabies vaccine to 150 equine rescue and retirement facilities nationwide, through the Unwanted Horse Veterinary Relief Campaign (UHVRC) in honor of the recent World Rabies Day.
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
September 30, 2009
Del Mar Thoroughbred Club is the 11th racing facility to win accreditation by a national safety organization.
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
September 21, 2009
Lexington, Ky. -- Tickets to the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games go on sale Friday (Sept. 25) at noon -- exactly one year before the games begin in Lexington's Kentucky Horse Park.
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
September 20, 2009
Las Vegas -- More than 4,000 veterinarians, veterinary students and technicians are expected for the 55th annual convention of the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) Dec. 5-9 at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Convention Center.
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
September 20, 2009
Fort Worth, Texas -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has an ongoing program offering $500 to those who adopt mature horses 4 to 10 years old from public lands as part of National Wild Horse Adoption Day Sept. 26.
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
September 15, 2009
Anderson, Ind. -- A suspected contagious infection in two Thoroughbred racehorses resulted in the quarantine of those two and 57 other horses at Anderson's Hoosier Park racetrack north of Indianapolis.
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
September 11, 2009
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) cases during the first eight months of 2009 already have surpassed last year's total in the United States.
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
September 10, 2009
North Grafton, Mass. -- A new six-stall equine isolation ward at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University triples the capacity for patients at the infectious-disease unit.
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