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Understanding Potomac Horse Fever

What Every Horse Owner Should Know As summer arrives, veterinarians and horse owners across Canada grow increasingly concerned about Potomac Horse Fever (PHF). Once rare, the disease is appearing more often in regions north of the U.S.  Potomac is now considered endemic in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Alberta, and British Columbia. What Is Potomac…

Dr Kristen Frederick gives a vaccination to a black New Forest Pony. Photo credit Jackie Zions

Vaccination Planning is Key

Prevention is Kinder than Cure Your horse’s vaccination plan shouldn’t be built on what you did last year.  Risk isn’t static and neither is your horse’s life. New horses arrive at barns. Old ones move on. Show schedules change. Boarding arrangements shift. Even climate patterns influence disease risk. Vaccination decisions made in isolation, or out…