Early exposure curbs allergies in Icelandic horses
Horses that were exposed at birth to the Culicoides midge, which can cause an extreme allergic reaction, never experienced that reaction, while 62.5% of horses that were first introduced to the midges in adulthood developed an itchy eczema-like reaction, according to a 13-year study of Icelandic horses conducted by researchers at Cornell University in New York.
