RE: : RC: EPM Vaccine

["Deb Blackburn" <daredreamfarm@hotmail.com>]

<<does anyone have any info. on the EPM vaccine?
efficacy?  possible reactions?  is it even worth considering?

thanks
Anita Carlson

Ft. Dodge used to have the results of their study on their website.  Not 
sure if it is still there, but what they told me is that because no one 
knows what makes one horse have "clinical" EPM and another not (when both 
test positive) they can not conclusively prove that it is the vaccine that 
is keeping the test horses from active EPM, but that they are convinced it 
is.

In any event, I did vaccinate (eight of them).  No side effects and no EPM, 
whether because of the vaccine or not.

It was worth it to me after dealing with an EPM horse for a year.  The cost 
of the vaccine (around $40 per horse with a booster in two weeks and annual 
thereafter) was nothing compared to the cost of treating the one horse with 
EPM.  Not to mention having to watch him go through it.  Hope this helps.

Deb

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