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EPM is spread through many animals, but the most common is the Opossum in the USA. Other carrier animals can be raccoons, sea otters, skunks, armadillos, and sometimes cats. When an animals carrying the disease urinates or defecates and the horse grazes In that spot it can contract the illness, but it cannot pass it on to other horses once it's become infected.

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