Clinical Experiences with White Muscle Disease

Abstract

For many years veterinarians saw clinical cases and read reports of primary myopathic diseases in food animals and the equine. During the 1950's and the 1960's, investigative research teams found one of the probable causes to be a deficiency of either alpha tocopherol and/or selenium in the diet. Since this breakthrough, innumerable clinical manifestations of white muscle disease (WMD), selenium responsive disease (SRD), or selenium alpha tocopherol deficiency (STD) have been encountered.