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Cows

Five most common pathologies of cows

1) Mastitis: Mastitis, or inflammation of the mammary gland, is the most common and expensive disease of dairy cattle in most parts of the world. Despite stress and physical injury, inflammation of the gland can be caused, infection by invasive bacteria or other microorganisms (fungi and viruses) are the main causes of mastitis.



Cow with mastitis                           Healthy cow

2) Babesiosis: Bovine babesiosis is a febrile disease transmitted by ticks and caused by one or more protozoan parasites of the genus Babesia that is generally characterized by extensive erythrocytic lysis leading to anemia, jaundice, hemoglobinuria and death.



3) Brucelosis: Bovine brucellosis is a contagious disease of cattle, It is also transmitted to man. It produces abortions, placental retention and production of weak offspring. It is spread by licking infected areas, eating infected grass or consuming milk that is also infected with the virus, fighting with common disinfectants

 
A cow with its dead baby

4)Aphtose fever: Foot and Mouth Disease is a viral disease, very contagious, of rapid course that affects split or split hoofed animals; It is characterized by fever and vesicle formation mainly in the oral cavity, snout, interdigital spaces and coronary impellers of the hooves.

  

5) Tuberculosis: Bovine tuberculosis is a chronic disease of animals caused by
Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) bacteria, a bacillus belonging to the genus
Mycobacterium. This causes inflammation of the lymph glands, weakness, loss of appetite, dry cough, fever among other symptoms. This bacterium is related to the bacteria that cause human and bird tuberculosis

    


Cow's digestive system

   

Cow's skeletal system




Horses

Link: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_ferus_caballus

This website has all the information that you want to get about horses, anatomy, evolution, biology, habitat, how they relate, how they live, what they eat, the types of races, so that they are occupied, pathologies among others, me because it has a lot of information, since other pages only have it summarized or it is not enough, also if we need data we can add and modify it, wikipedia is a great search engine.

Horse's external anatomy




Horse's cardiovascular system