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SOBERING PROJECTIONS: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE MAY AFFECT DEWORMING

From extreme weather events to increased incidence of certain diseases, climate change poses a number of well-known threats to horse health. Now new research adds another concern to the list: accelerating drug resistance among internal parasites.

The study, a joint effort between the Grasslands Research Center in New Zealand and the University of Kentucky, was “an exercise

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