Re: RC: Re: Equine Infectious Anemia

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 05:30 PM 11/28/00, Ed & Wendy Hauser wrote:
>A significant proportion of inapparent carriers later become acute and die

I have been curious for a long time about this issue.  I too have never 
heard of a horse dying of EIA.  Would you know what the "significant 
proportion" actually is?  Would you know what the proportion of horses 
which show signs of EIA and die of it (not euthanized) is?

>IF WE HAD DONE THIS IN THE '70'S WHEN IT WAS FIRST POSSIBLE, THERE WOULD 
>BE NO EIA TODAY

Another thing I have been curious about is why, if all this testing has 
been done, EIA is still being transmitted frequently enough to require 
euthanasia as the treatment of (government) choice.  And also I have 
wondered why (as far as I know) no other diseases that horses contract from 
other horses and die from has resulted in mandatory euthanasia as the 
treatment  of (government) choice.



Lif Strand
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