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Re: [RC] West Nile - Jackie Winkleman

Can you find out exactly where it can be purchased for 4 dollars?  My
vet (also my mother) charges me her cost for the vaccines.  It isn't
near 4 dollars.

Thanks,
Jackie  

--- Lif Strand <lif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At 12:22 PM 9/16/2003, Jonni Jewell wrote:

I still think very often, groups like this can give some of the best



information


I would like to know what might be done to combat overpricing of
vaccines 
like WNV.  People are being gouged.  A local rancher got his for
$4/shot 
from somewhere in Texas (I'm in NM).  My regular vet offered me WNV
vaccine 
for $25/shot.  I went elsewhere to buy and gave my first round of
shots for 
a "discounted" price of $21.50 per shot - cost me almost $300 to
cover all 
my horses.  The second shot I hunted around and found a source in AZ
for 
$15 each.  Only after that did I discover that the shots could be had
for 
$4 each.

I'm pretty upset about that.

I hate to say it, but some vets are clearly padding their retirement 
accounts on our concerns for horses.  Price gouging is illegal in 
emergencies, but I guess the government doesn't think that WNV in
horses is 
an emergency.



________________________________
    Lif Strand www.fasterhorses.com
            Quemado NM USA


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