Part 3: Alternative chemical treatments

This third article in our series on African horse sickness entails an overview of treatments used at the moment, despite very little scientific evidence regarding their efficacy. Explanations of their alleged working are those of the proponents of the particular treatment.

Miracle mineral supplement

Several people have been using chlorine dioxide (also called MMS or miracle mineral supplement, first put to use by Jim Humble). The mixture is a vo...

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Worms are internal parasites that can do major damage to the internal organs of the horse. All horse owners have seen the signs of worm infestation. This includes a dull hair coat, weight loss, tail rubbing, diarrhoea and colic. But not all horses will show these obvious signs and some will be apparently healthy while the worms are doing their damage on the inside.

Worm infestation often causes a dull coat, weight loss, colic and diarrhoea in horses

 

There are many speci...

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Management of pastures and paddocks plays an important role in control over parasites, and time and effort spend on this will pay off handsomely in lowering the damage done by parasites and on reducing the money spent on remedies.

Horses are kept on pastures or in paddocks. For the purposes of this article, paddocks are defined as smallish enclosures in which horses are kept in small numbers. More often, they will have no grass cover and are often used to allow stabled horses some free...

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Parasietweerstand word deur die Wêreldgesondheidsorganisasie (WGO) omskryf as "die ontwikkeling van die vermoë van 'n stam organismes om dosisse gifstowwe te weerstaan, wat gewoonlik dodelik vir die meerderheid individue in 'n normale bevolking van dieselfde spesie is".

Kortom beteken dit dat, in enige parasietbevolking, daar individue is wat geneties weerstandig is teen 'n spesifieke middel of aktiewe bestanddeel wat dodelik is vir die meerderheid van individue, nog voordat die mid...

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