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When I moved to Sarasota, FL the YMCA had a stable and they providing 
riding lessons. All of their horses were donated horses that were EIA 
positive. These horses were not sick and the stable manager told me 
there vets bills were normally smaller than a regular stable of it's 
size because they didn't have to pay to test.

All their horses were under quarantine and they had sufficient land to 
insure the necessary separation between their horses and others.

There are not many cases and few positives you hear about in FL any 
more. It seems that it takes a bitting fly bitting one horse and landing 
on another horse right next to it and bitting it to transfer it or as 
you say a common needle.

Truman

Sisu West Ranch wrote:

> "...In TX, ALL horses leaving your property HAVE to have a negative 
> coggins ..."
> EIA is most prevalent in the Mississippi river valley, TX and Florida. 
> When testing first became available, some Florida TB farms had 25% or 
> more positive. The reason turned out to be (in part) that the horses 
> were sharing needles just like human drug addicts. (EIA is the same 
> type of virus as the one that causes HIV, though EIA CAN NOT infect 
> humans).
> 30 years ago some people wanted to test all US horses and require 
> slaughter of the positives. For various reasons this was not done. The 
> result is that instead of EIA being extinct like Glanders, we still 
> have to test millions of horses each year to keep it in check.
> By the way, even though there are some horses that do not get sick, 
> many do get very sick. Some die, some recover and then get sick 
> periodically all their lives.
> Ed
> Ed & Wendy Hauser
> 2994 Mittower Road
> Victor, MT 59875
> (406) 642-9640
> ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ranch@xxxxxxxxxxx>



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“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an 
optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” Harry S. 
Truman



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