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On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:00 AM, L gin wrote:

> I am not a vet--but  my first hunch was it sounded like a poisioning.
Makes sense...BUT
> ....maybe something in the food, air ,etc.-- could there be a new  
> fertilizer or something being used on feedstuffs over there?  
> Pesticides? etc? I had a dog have similiar symptoms and vet thought  
> she may have been poisioned.

only one horse in four different stables here...what about the other  
thirty? Each farm has its own feeding routine, not necessarily from  
the same place but all horses from the same farm are getting the same  
food.

> The dark urine sounds similiar to what happens when a horse ties  
> up...muscle cell breakdown, blue gums --lack of oxygen---red cell  
> damgage? Anemia type symptoms....
>   Are other animals -- herbivores having anything like this? Or the  
> carnivores????--
>
> If it is a virus---what do they have in common--what could they  
> all  injest or share that is similiar???

Off the top of my head, I'm guessing mosquitos. It has cooled off  
here to a level that the mosquitos love and they are much more  
active. I know for sure that we have at least eight mosquito borne  
viruses that can affect horses, some of which I haven't been able to  
find out about online. Years ago a horse at the country club up the  
road got encephalitis and our visiting American vet was able to pull  
some strings at the US Naval Medical Research unit in Cairo to have  
blood pulled on a group of horses at the club and some surrounding  
farms. When we got the results we were flabbergasted. These horses  
had antibodies to things we'd never heard of and on the whole had  
never noticed anyone sick. Unfortunately NAMRU isn't so obliging  
these days, so I haven't found anyone here who can check for some of  
these things in humans, much less horses. But google equine viral  
disease and your head will spin. Some very interesting stuff is  
coexisting with us.

Maryanne
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