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MagsNMe


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Date: May 18, 2011
EHV-1 Outbreak
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Just wondering what other barns might be doing in the face of the outbreak.  There are two confirmed cases here in AB in horses that were down at the Utah show, so you can imagine there's chaos.

I'm taking extra precautions (spraying the truck tires, nerf bars and floor mats with Virkon), but both barns I have my horses at are on the usual protocol:  change clothes, change boots, spray with Virkon, use hand sanitizer, don't touch other people's horses...

We're most concerned about my little guy, he's only 10 months, but he is vaccinated and as far away from a transient population as he can be.



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Nikki Salo


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I can't really comment at this point because I don't own a horse, so I'm not under lock down anywhere. But in the past I had a heavy traveling schedule with horses, so although I do not have a horse right now, I'm still biting my nails and would absolutely be staying home (and monitoring any horses that I had recently taken off farm, along with keeping them separated from horses that were at home). It has been great to see over the past few days associations taking the step to cancel shows, as well as clinicians/horse trainers doing their part as well by postponing clinics. Kudos to everybody, it is tough to lose that income, but it is for the greater good to say the least. My heart goes out to anybody who has a horse/s who are under a monitoring eye, I just read a report yesterday of Kim Vaughn's mare Shesa Silver Spoon who will hopefully have a quality recovery.

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MagsNMe, I'm not exactly sure but I don't think there is a vaccine for the neurological mutation of EHV-1?



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MagsNMe


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There isn't one for the neurological, no. For the little guy, it's not just this particular virus though that we worry about, but in general.

There is some evidence that having a horse vaccinated for rhino will help on the neuro strain. However, no one really knows.

We've just pulled our horses from the show next weekend, and we'll sit tight on the one in June for now.

No one wants to over-react, but no one wants to be too lax either.

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At least with over-reacting, any threats are took care of. This is something that needs to be caught and treated to prevent spreading the disease so everyone can get back to there normal routines. But then again over-reacting leads to the swine flu scare. I know some(fair number)of people who caught it when we were at a summer camp and now we joke about it, but at the time it was scary.

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