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Beth Walker <bwalker2@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

 

 

I would have to say that in this case the horses were treated wrong.  I was told that if you have a horse at a barn that comes up with strangles, you should divide the horses into three groups.....

 

Group 1.  Horses with obvious symptoms of strangles should be isolated and treated only.

 

Group 2.  Horses with known exposure to sick horses should be isolated and watched for 10 days or so for symptoms...or I guess could be treated as a precaution.  If no symptoms arise..vaccinate

 

Group 3.  Horses that are known to not have contact should be isolated and vaccinated.

 

If the horses were already exposed then the vaccine will not have any protective effect.

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