PENDLETON, Ore. — Symptoms of a contagious animal disease called pigeon fever have been found in dozens of horses in Eastern Oregon this fall. Despite the name, the disease is not spread by the bird.

Experts are cautioning horse owners to be on the lookout for pigeon fever, a bacterial illness that causes abscesses typically in the pectoral region of horses, but in other anatomical sites. Pigeon ...

(KUTV) A sickness being spread by flies is taking Iron County by storm.Officials say it is a disease affecting horses called Pigeon Fever. They say three out of every 10,000 that get the sickness will ...