Likewise, and research in the U.S. there is a new cause of lung disease to give the horse. It is is a previously underestimated herpes virus. According to current nomenclature, it is considered Equine Herpes Virus -5 (EHV-5) and is actually known for some time. It has been underestimated in its potential malignancy and been associated with corneal diseases of the eye. The progression of the disease can the results of researchers from the Michigan State University be worse than RAO or the symptoms of steamy according . Basically, the clinical symptoms are comparable, but the disease progresses the period ahead, the possibilities for treatment are problematic and the prognosis based on the present state of things poorly. The disease is caused by EHV -5, is known in English as " equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis. The disease was previously known, the connection to EHV is -5 but new. EHV -5 is primarily in young horses in Germany and Switzerland have been detected, usually harmless, but in conjunction with infections of the upper respiratory tract. EHV-5 and EHV-2 pathogens are detected in many horses with no symptoms of disease in the tear fluid of the eye. In the blood is found in up to 93% of the horses antibodies against these herpes viruses. Despite everything, excitement is not appropriate as the number of cases of serious disease might not be particularly large.
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