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[RC] Moon Blindness - labdoggyI have a mare that has/had moon blindness.....or I should say that she had a "bout" of it back in August of 99. She has not had it since. The one eye that she had it in is more sensitive ie: watering occasionally etc. but all in all she has been symptom free for almost 5 years. My vet at the time felt that it was Environmentally induced....she was in a VERY STRESSFUL situation. My current vet feels that it has a lot to do with the Lepto bacteria. Even though of course they have not done any major studies on this disease in horses. She likes to inoculate with the cattle vaccine (seeing as they do not have one for horses). When we did a blood test (just for my vets own research) my mare had a very high titer(sp?) on a few of the lepto strains. I just try to keep her as stress free as possible, and hope that another bout is non existent or at least kept to a minimum. Lynn Brunetto An Endurance Admirer Lynn ============================================================ The CRI was originally a test for humans developed at UCLA in 1939. A professor at UC Davis named Morey Fowler became interested in this and wondered how it would work on horses and started testing it. Dr. Fowler was at one time the head vet at Tevis. A young vet named Kerry Ridgeway worked with him on this project helping to collect the data...........and as they say, the rest is history... ~ mb ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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