Re: RC: West Nile Virus Vaccine for equines

[Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@mindspring.com>]

My vet is not comfortable with it and believes it is an over reaction for
healthy horses. The sample size was small and there are many drugs/vaccines
pulled off the market after reactions develop in the population at large
which have been tested on much larger populations for longer periods of time
than this one.

His last Email to his clients stated that if the horse is healthy then he
doesn't see it as an issue especially considering the uncertainty of the
vaccine. He's pretty good to keep his clients informed when there is an issue
like this one.

Truman

guest@endurance.net wrote:

> Lyn Dunbar dunbar@hiwaay.net
> My vet has just called to tell me that the West Nile Virus vaccine for
> equines was just approved and she has already gone through her first 70
> shots today.  She said for me to do some research (she knows I would :->)
> and think over the weekend about giving my two horses shots, and then I
> could reserve shots when she gets her next shipment in the first of next
> week.  She said that she is comfortable with the science behind the
> vaccine since it is the same as the ones for EEE & WEE that have been
> given for years.  Has anybody else heard anything about the vaccine or
> about infection rates of the virus?
>
> I am in Huntsville, AL and we have a confirmed case of West Nile virus in
> a dead bird in Birmingham (about 100 miles away) and now a confirmed case
> in Decatur, AL which is only about 30 miles away.
>
> Thanks,
> Lyn Dunbar
> dunbar@hiwaay.net
>
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