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Equine Infectious Anemia

Other Names: Swamp Fever, Mountain Fever, Slow Fever, Equine Malarial Fever, Coggins Disease
Equine infectious anemia (EIA) is a retroviral disease of horses.
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  • equine infectious anemia virus
  • Orthoretrovirinae
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equine-infectious-anemia: Horse, heart. Pale cardiac muscle, focal white areas of myocardial degeneration, and reddened hemorrhagic areas (possible hypoxia during death).
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