All horse owners should know what to look for and what steps to take if they ever spot the symptoms of strangles in horses.
It is highly contagious and tends to be found in horses with low immune systems and specifically targets the lymph nodes.
One major symptom of strangles includes abscesses in their lymph nodes around their jaw, mouth or neck. Horses have no desire to eat their food.
If the illness is caught in the early stages, before any abscesses form, the antibiotic Penicillin can be administered.
Humans can’t get strangles from a horse, but they can get an infection from the subspecies of the strangles-causing bacteria Streptococcus equi.