Research initiated at the Equine Infectious Disease Laboratory, EIDL, at Texas A&M University to explore the genomic components of strangles has now led to an improved assay at the Texas A&M ...

Since 1991, Redwings has quarantined and tested over 4,000 horses for strangles, a potentially devastating infectious disease of equids caused by the bacterium Streptococcus equi, on their arrival at ...

The New York Racing Association and the New York State Gaming Commission have placed a group of horses located in barn 28 on the main track side of Saratoga Race Course under quarantine due to a ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (NEWS10) — A quarantine on Barn 85 at Saratoga Race Course has now been lifted, the New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) announced on Friday. The barn was first placed under ...

Two horses in Florida have recently tested positive for strangles. In Sarasota County, one gelding tested positive for the disease on June 2. Two additional horses are suspected to be positive, and ...

In the largest ever study of its kind into an equine pathogen, scientists in 18 countries used the latest DNA sequencing techniques to track the bacteria responsible for a disease called 'strangles' ...

The New York Racing Association and the New York State Gaming Commission have placed Barn 85 at Saratoga Race Course under a 14-day precautionary quarantine until further notice due to a positive case ...

One barn at Horseshoe Indianapolis in Shelbyville, Ind., has been placed under quarantine due to a horse testing positive for strangles, a highly contagious bacterial infection impacting a horse’s ...