Re: RC: Re: West Nile vaccine. should we be using it?

[Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@mindspring.com>]

It was thought that it would take awhile to work it's way down the east coast to
FL, maybe a couple of years. Last year it literally exploded down here. Several
thousand documented cases. Most vets in FL reccomend the vaccine.

I would expect it will end up through out the country soon, given how fast it
got from New York to FL. Currently it's thought that the prime crow is the
carrier and there are very few places without crows.

Truman

Susan Garlinghouse wrote:

> > Vet is recommending vaccination for West Nile virus. We are in Dallas TX
> > area.
> >
> > Is this worth while doing on healthy horses?  Two shots 2 weeks apart, and
>
> We had a USDA vet lecturing to us last week and he recommended it highly,
> even for horses in Colorado.  He said the epidemiologists are expecting WNV
> to show up in Colorado sometime by the end of 2002, so I'd expect it to be
> in Texas by or before then, too.
>
> Mine are scheduled to be vaxed for it asap.
>
> Susan G