horse diagnosis- strangles

This is a video of an abscess on my horse's head which was subsequently diagnosed as strangles. Swelling of the legs was attributed to fever and systemic infection. The abscess had to be lanced approximately 1 1/2 weeks after this video was taken as it did not rupture and drain on it's own.

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[music22135]

hi :)

i just bought a horse and found out he had an untreated leg abscess, and know hes got like this bump on his leg, do u think it will be painful for him to jump ??

[noPsnoQuiet]

which I am told gives them a better immunity to start with (and/or some of them may have already had it previously so they had some resistance.) We did try to be vigilant about cleaning, not touching other horses etc.

[noPsnoQuiet]

Interestingly, none of the other horses seemed to catch it (no symptoms anyway.) The horse you see pictured in the next stall actually had just arrived and was quarantined due to a runny nose and coughing existing prior to his arrival. He did develop a "strangles" abscess within a few days but we think he brought it with him. We kept both of them quarantined away from everyone else. None of the existing horses which were around mine pre-incident had any issues at all. They were all older horses

[fathomless26]

Did the other horse in the stall next door get strangles too? Iv heard that strangles is contagouse.