Atypical Myglobinuria --- Any more information avaliable?

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I'm scrounging around for some more information on Atypical Myglobinurea. My horse sadly died of it around 45 days ago and I am completely lost about what it is/caused it.

I would really appreciate if any one could give me any more information about it as I am completely in the dark! Any information at all would be appreciated. What causes it? etc. Would it be safe to graze another horse on the same pasture? Is there any way of preventing it?

Thanks.
 
How very sad, a friend of mine's horse died of this very recently and she is devastated. They found the horse barely able to move in the field and it later collapsed and was PTS.
Not very much is known about it unfortunately, current thinking seems to be that it is a result of toxins from rapid fungal growth due to quick changes in climate (e.g. warm and vet to frozen and vice versa). It seems to mostly affect horses in light/no work who are at grass with little or no supplementary feeding.
 
What is interesting is that my horse was fed twice a day. He had sugarbeet, chaff and pasture mix so he had quite a lot of supplementary feed! (My goodness my spelling was interesting there.)

He was also in medium work and we did a lot of competing, (even in the winter!)
 
my friend's horse died of this last night. very very sad. no more info though i'm afraid - seems to be v rare and not well understood and reminds me of grass sickness in the acuteness and understanding of it.
 
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