I wish I could find the site I found this info. on. I'll look and see if I
can find the exact details. I looked it up a few weeks ago. I think the
year was like 1990 or something. They testing a few hundred thousand horses for
the virus and I think it was over 100 that were positive. They did it again in
2001 I believe and I think there were like 5 horses out of 900,000 or so that
actually tested POSITIVE! So really what is the chance that a horse has the
virus. And if it did wouldn't you notice something not right about the
equine?
Honestly, in my opinion, I wouldn't really worry about it. But that's just
how my family is. If a horse has the virus you'll know. Look up the symptons, I
don't think you'd get away with selling a horse that was positive that doesn't
show the symptons. I'll look those up again too unless someone knows them.
We're not too keen on giving our horses much shots or things like that. My
family has always been that way and our horses have always been nothing but
wonderfully healthy horses!
