Most horse owners are familiar with practical ways to reduce the risk of equine contagious diseases such as vaccination and avoiding contact with sick horses. However, diseases can be spread by many routes including insects, contact with contaminated surfaces, aerosols or droplets from saliva or nasal secretions of a horse with respiratory disease, and ingestion of fecal material from a horse with intestinal disease. People can become contaminated by these bacteria and viruses too, most often on skin, clothing, footwear and equipment. The person could then unwittingly carry the organism to other horses, not just within a barn but to other barns as well.

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