{"id":4751,"date":"2011-05-03T03:28:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T20:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2019-03-21T15:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T21:11:30","slug":"facts-and-fallacies-of-lyme-disease-in-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/facts-and-fallacies-of-lyme-disease-in-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTS AND FALLACIES OF LYME DISEASE IN HORSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-2560x316553x114416&amp;\"><strong>PDF SPECIAL REPORT:<\/strong><\/a> Lyme disease is caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium called\u00a0<em>Borrelia burgdorferi<\/em> that is spread to some mammals via the bite of specific hard-bodied ticks. Also known as borreliosis, it is widely considered the most important insect-borne bacterial infection in North America and the question remains: Do ticks transmit the bacterium to horses and cause disease, as they do to humans and dogs, or is this a disease presumed also to affect horses simply because they coexist in the same environments as the ticks?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maestro-trk.bloodhorse.com\/trk\/click?ref=zqoqmnmb8_1-2560x316553x114416&amp;\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyme disease is caused by a spiral-shaped bacterium called\u00a0Borrelia burgdorferi that is spread to some mammals via the bite of specific hard-bodied ticks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,40],"tags":[603,232],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry","category-thehorse","tag-borrelia-burgdorferi","tag-lyme-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8714,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/8714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}