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Re: Re: Horse sickness



Hi, Celeste.



>And I have a bridge to sell you!  Even the "free zone" has had outbreaks
recently.>



>Well as far as I am concerned the freezone is a man made AHS free area and
has only had outbreaks since man started interfering with the quaratine
area.>

Sorry?  I think those two sentences are contradictory.


>I have friends that have stayed in the freezone for +-50 years and have
never vaccinated with no losses but since the quarantine station came into
being with all the travelling laws etc, they have lost many horse in the
area . I do know of two farmers in other areas who have never vaccinated
their breeding stock and they have lost no horses when, farms around them
have lost horses.>


I think the weather also has a part to play.  When last did we have a winter
cold enough to kill off the virus during the winter months.  There were
cases of AHS reported right through this winter, which was unheard of a few
years ago.


>Every second year vaccination schedule came from OP itself! Seems the one
hand doesn't know what the other is doing?>


Not so.  OP is telling you the minimum requirements.  I just play it safe.


>I also remember two years ago when many horses died from the vaccine
itself, they introduced a mutant strain at to strong a dose or something.>


No, they didn't die from the vacc.  They died because the vacc they had
given was not efficient against the new strain of the virus.  That's why we
had to give no 2 again in March (remember?)


Tracey





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