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I'll chime in with agreement with Raven and Karen -- my vet used to  
recommend the strangles vaccine, but no longer does.  They will give  
it if you want, but they had a bad experience themselves, kind of  
similar to Karens.  A horse on a ranch got strangles, and they  
recommended vaccinating all of the other horses.  Most of them got  
strangles anyway, and some got very, very sick.

My vet didn't mention any auto-immune response, but he did say that  
many horses have bad reactions to the strangles vaccine itself  
(probably the same thing..) and that it is not a particularly  
effective vaccine anyway.  With that combination, they just don't  
recommend vaccinating for it anymore.

I'll also second that you should still consult you own vet.



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