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Well duh! - they found the same thing in Florida when it first hit here 
several years ago. Many horses that had not been vaccinated were tested 
and showed titer but had not shown any clinical signs and were doing 
just fine. This is old news. I had one of the vets from UF that 
participated in the study (he also vets endurance rides) comment to me - 
the most effective WN vaccine is the mosquito.

Truman

Maryanne Gabbani wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:mer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Thehorse.com - Full story
>     <http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=11186>
>
>     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 <http://www.cvrl.co.ae/> 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...
>
>     More... <http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=11186>
>
>     --
>     Posted By Merri to Consider This
>     
> <http://www.endurance.net/channels/2008/01/antibodies-to-wnv-common-in-arab.html>
>     at 1/22/2008 04:11:00 PM
>
>
>
>
> --
> Maryanne Stroud Gabbani
> msgabbani@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:msgabbani@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Egypt Face to Face
> www.alsorat.com <http://www.alsorat.com>
> Weblogs:
> Living In Egypt
> miloflamingo.blogspot.com <http://miloflamingo.blogspot.com>
> Cairo/Giza Daily Photo
> cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com <http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com>
> Turn Right At The Sarcophagus
> haramlik.blogspot.com <http://haramlik.blogspot.com>
> Photos of Egypt:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/livinginegypt/ 


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