Six horses in Texas recently tested positive for equine infectious anemia (EIA), including two horses in Burleson County, one horse in Johnson County, two horses in Atascosa County, and one horse in ...

In rare cases, a horsefly bite has been known to cause a severe bacterial infection or a potentially deadly allergy known as anaphylaxis. Female horseflies are the cause of horsefly bites. They have ...

Equine infectious anemia is a viral disease that attacks horses’ immune systems. The virus is transmitted through the exchange of body fluids from an infected to an uninfected animal, often by ...

Despite the name, horseflies are not host-specific to horses. They will feed opportunistically on available human and animal hosts. “Like mosquitoes, only female horse flies bite because they need the ...