The launch of a five-year research plan hopes to “shine a new light” on equine grass sickness.
The Equine Grass Sickness Fund (EGSF) has revealed its plans for 2021-2025 as the charity works together with scientists to look at the disease in “new ways and from fresh angles”.
A spokesman for EGSF said the research will be focused on the charity’s aims; cause, prevention and treatment.
“There are still questions to be answered about specific causal agents, and these will remain a focus of research, including mycotoxins and clostridium botulinum,” he said.
“We will also undertake an open-minded review of what has been done to date, and establish the known facts, in order to identify promising new angles for investigation. Equine grass sickness seems likely to be multifactorial, so a cross-disciplinary approach may produce dividends.”