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Helping clients understand the
importance of an effective fly control plan
is essential to the prevention of these
sores. Plus, there's an added benefit—
working to reduce fly populations that
transmit the parasites responsible for
summer sores could also help prevent
other diseases these flies can carry.
Explain the fly lifecycle to clients
Horse owners may not realize that house flies and stable
flies can act as intermediate hosts for equine stomach
worm larvae. It's helpful to explain that horses pick up
these parasites from the environment by their feeding
activities. Once ingested, the larvae mature into adults in
the horse's stomach. The mature adult parasites then lay
eggs that are shed into the environment through manure.
These eggs hatch into larvae, which flies can then transmit
as they feed on the horse.
Warn clients how these parasites can trigger severe
itchiness and inflammation around wounds, the eyes,
mouth and genitalia, causing a nonhealing condition
known as summer sores.
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Stress that treatment of summer sores is difficult and may
include a combination of topical and systemic medications.
Remind horse owners that in extreme cases, surgery
is necessary to remove proud flesh that has formed.
