Researchers might not know everything about horse health conditions, but they often know enough about ailments to render some type of treatment. However, there are some conditions that remain ...

The first sign was a limp. Then he suffered a seizure that sent him sliding off the couch and left him wobbly, at first, when he stood. While the diagnosis was common to many people -- Lyme disease -- ...

Dear Dr. Vittoria: Recently the barn where my horse is boarded started the Lyme disease vaccine. I trail ride and have found deer ticks too numerous to count on my horse over the years. He has been ...

A Rutgers scientist aiming to help heal a sick horse created an ultra-sensitive DNA test that could have applications for difficult-to-detect illnesses in humans such as Lyme disease. A Rutgers ...

More than 400,000 Americans contract Lyme disease through the bite of tick every year, according to estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is no similarly reliable estimate ...

Diagnosing Lyme disease in horses is tricky business; not all horses that contract the causative bacterium, Borrellia burgdorferi, from infected ticks develop the debilitating condition, and those ...