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Barnmouser Ash


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African Horse Sickness Outbreak Confirmed
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AHS Outbreak: 12 Cases Confirmed

What are your thoughts on this? Do you have any knowledge of this sickness or vaccines?

On a related note: What are your thoughts on vaccinations? Are they good or bad? Do you always vaccinate? What about research for vaccinations; do you think it's a good way to spend time and money? What are some ways we can help move this industry (vaccinations/research) along?



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Nikki Salo


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I only know a few things about African Horse Sickness, those being that it is the highly fatal (the highest of any disease in equines I believe), and all equines can contract it through midges biting them (this includes donkeys, mules, zebras etc.). I also know that there is a vaccine for it, but that there isn't a cure for it, slow recovery if there is one at all.

Scary to say the least hmm



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Barnmouser Ash


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Hopefully they can get it contained over there before it spreads to other parts of Africa and on to Eurasia and the Americas.

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Jackie Cochran


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African Horse Sickness is why the Show Jumping stars from South Africa had to borrow horses whenever they competed abroad. No country was willing to risk the disease.


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An updated article (from the future!? :P) http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2011/03/063.shtml

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