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Well, duh! We've had WNV here since 1930's and most of us would test positive for antibodies. Sometimes I wonder how someone like me living in a research backwater and just paying attention to the net can have a better idea of what's going on that the researchers. USA WNV comes from Israeli geese and is not the same strain as we have in the real live Nile. No one here is willing to innoculate because we don't want to introduce another tougher strain of it.

Maryanne

On Jan 23, 2008 1:15 AM, Merri <mer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thehorse.com - Full story

by: Christa Lesté-Lasserre
January 18 2008, Article # 11186

Researchers found antibodies to West Nile virus (WNV) in nearly 20% of horses recently tested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to Ulrich Wernery, DVM, PhD, scientific director of the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory in Dubai and author of the Dubai-based study published in Wildlife Middle East.

The testing was initiated after one horse showed clinical signs of encephalitis.

"We were really astonished, especially to see only one clinical case," Wernery said. "That means to us that we are dealing with a very mild strain."

The horse that showed clinical signs...

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