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[RC] Postive CogginsTest in Chico, CA - rides2farHere is the story........this mare (Call her Lexi) is a registered 2001 QH > mare in foal and due May 2005. She is a HEALTHY, gorgeous horse, kids can > ride, and not to mention again, she is pregnant. I will tell you now her > baby is doomed to the same future as she is, even if tested negative. It is > not known whether the foal could infect EIA at age 5, 10, or maybe NEVER so > therefore the foal is positive even if he/she tests negative Feel free to cross post this back to the girl who owns this mare. I bought my first horse when she was 5 months old when she was weaned off of her dam who soon after turned up EIA positive. I am in Georgia. That mare and 2 others had been bought in Mississippi the year previous by my uncle. He turned them out with 27 other App mares in a huge field with a creek and a *very* healthy horsefly population. Eventually, one of the mares from Mississippi became sick. They tested her and she had EIA. This was before testing was all that common...1975 I believe. They had the entire herd tested and the three mares who were originally from Mississippi were all positive and not one other horse tested positive... even after a year in the same field, so I believe it's pretty safe to assume they brought it with them from Miss. I had just bought the 5 mo. old filly when the mare was found positive and I assume put down. My filly grew up into a nice mare who tested negative. I sold her to a show home and she produced some very successful foals for the show ring who were of course negative. I did my senior term paper on EIA in 1978 and I know that at that time they said a foal would test positive while nursing a positive dam, then unless infected by a fly go negative after weaning. I believe the standard quarantine is 1/4 mi. which is the range of a horsefly. For a horsefly to spread the disease it had to be in the act of biting the positive horse, be interrupted, and immediately bite the next horse. I think it's *very* likely that most big outbreaks were caused back when a vet would go all the way down the row in a barn injecting horses with the same needle. Before disposable needles that was not that unusual. Yes, it's a serious disease, but don't expect horses to start dropping like flies all around her or anything. Angie McGhee Wildwood, GA Rides2far@xxxxxxxx =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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