Ridecamp: Re: [RC] WNV information

There is a yahoo group that seems to have pretty good
information and has vets that post there. Check them out!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EquineWNV/


heidi


--- Kathie Ford <MsPoOh17@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all, I found a website with updated information
> regarding the WNV.  Last update was November 15. Seems
> that one horse was confirmed in Idaho.  It bordered a
> county where in Washington a raven was found infected
> with WNV.  The raven was in NE Washington.  What I found
> interesting; and you may read it for yourselves, is that
> one very first MARINE mammal was confirmed as having WNV.
>  I found this very strange.  Being the paranoid skeptic I
> am I am of the feeling (gut feeling) that someone or a
> group may have begun this intentionally.  I maybe crazy,
> but I can't shake this feeling.  I know virus can spread
> thru air easily, and insects, animals, humans.  Now
> saltwater?  humm.  Any vets out there have any comments?
> 
> Also, I'm in Northern California and trying to keep my
> head about this and yet quite alarmed.  I personally know
> of more than nine people losing horses in the last few
> weeks, myself being one of them.  Also one lost last
> thurs. at a ranch my daughter took lessons at, another a
> friend of hers from school, yet another, a friend of
> mine's mustang/curlie mare.  She died an hour after I
> arrived.  She was extremely toxic, yet not thrashing
> around.  She laid down and basically died quietly.  We
> were devastated.  Most of the ones mentioned were thought
> to be colics.  But two of the horses were found dead in
> their pastures.  No one knows why.  With the
> curly/mustang the vet was very puzzeled.    Extremely
> sad, but alarming.
> 
> Does anyone have any other experiences of late?
> 
> Anyway, the website I found is simple: 
> www.cfe.cornell.edu/erap/WNV/
> And good information...hope it helps.
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