Re: West Nile Virus Vaccine for equines

["baskhana" <baskhana@email.msn.com>]

If the viris was that close to me and there was a vaccine available, I would
have to give it.  FL lost some horses to it a couple of months ago AND it is
contagious to humans via the mosquito.  Looks like we need to be looking
very closely at this.  Mary Ann
----- Original Message -----
From: Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@mindspring.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 8:44 PM
Subject: RC: West Nile Virus Vaccine for equines


> 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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