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Possums can contract a protozoan parasite called Sarcocystis neurona and then shed an infective life stage in their feces. This parasite, when ingested by horses, can migrate to the central nervous system of the horse where it destroys cells in the brain and/or spinal cord which causes neurological disease.

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