is ventral edema uncomfortable for horse
The history may include inappetance, or loss of appetite, lethargy, and fever. Severely affected horses may have a history of high fever (105 â 106Â° F), depression, ventral edema, weight loss, ataxia, or incoordination, and epistaxis, or nosebleed.he virus is transmitted primarily by blood-feeding horseflies and deerflies. Infection with EIAV results in recurring, cyclic episodes of fever, lethargy, thrombocytopenia, or low platelets, anemia, and in some cases, weight loss, ventral edema, petechiation, or pinpoint bleeding in the skin, hemorrhage, and death.