shipping fever
What is shipping fever?
August 30th, 2013
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“Shipping fever” is a common name for pleuropneumonia, a serious infection involving the lungs and pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the chest wall) that’s often caused by the stress of travel. When fluid is found only in the lungs, and not in the pleural cavity, it’s simply referred to as pneumonia. Symptoms of pleuropneumonia include a foul …
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Devereux, a horse with heart
Rick Fraser, along with his daughter Kaylee, made the long road trip from Wetaskiwin, Alta., to Kentucky in the fall of 2012 to purchase new recruits for the family’s award-winning chuckwagon string. They had filled their six-horse trailer and were on their second day of travelling home when they stopped in Saskatoon to rest and check on the horses. That’s …
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