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Re: Re: Strangles(long, sorry)
Strangles is a funny disease. It can stay in the soil for years after the initial infection. I boarded at a barn that had strangles go through it about 5 years before I got there (I didn't know this until after my horse had been there a while). My mare was off the track, and had either had strangles in the past, or was immune to it. A horse came in to the barn about a month after I got there and in 2 weeks had this thick, yellow snot dripping out of every opening in its head. This horse had never been anywhere but the barn it came from in the 8 years it had been on the earth, and this horse had only been exposed to one other horse, it's paddock mate. Strangles can make a horse very sick and can kill them. It kills them when the glands in the neck become infected and swollen, "strangling" the horse. It is very treatable, with antibiotics, and if the glands get too swollen, they can be lanced.
I do have a question to all of you who travel all over the place, have you had your horse vaccinated for strangles?
Carolyn Burgess
----- Original Message -----
From: navion
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 9:35 PM
To: Roxi Anderson
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net
Subject: RC: Re: Strangles(long, sorry)
> other rides. Strangles can still be passed on by what
> seems to be a perfectly healthy horse up to 20-30 days
> after they are well. Please be responsible and keep
> these horses that have had strangles away from rides
> until they are no longer contagious.
I have a quesion, the horses at 20 MT that have not appeared to get sick,
as in the 6 horses from Bakersfield that all did the 100, could they carry
or shed the germ even though they appeared never to get strangles? None have
had snotty noses or off feed or any sign we have noticed. It has been 3.2
weeks since 20 MT.
thanks to whoever knows this answer
Jim Mitchell
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