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Re: [RC] Strangles in SE region - Maryanne GabbaniOne of the problems with that approach was seen here last summer during the infuenza epidemic. Barns would give antibiotics "just in case" and then later horses would come down with salmonella or some other gut nasty because the antibiotics had killed off a lot of good gut flora. We probably lost a lot of horses due to faulty treatments. Being on top of something contagious like that is a real balancing act. Too much treatment can do as much harm as too little and it's so hard to know which is which.
Maryanne Stroud Gabbani msgabbani@xxxxxxxxx Egypt Face to Face www.alsorat.com Weblogs: Living In Egypt miloflamingo.blogspot.com Cairo/Giza Daily Photo cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com Turn Right At The Sarcophagus haramlik.blogspot.com Da Moose Is Loose (a blog for kids) mstroud.blogspot.com Photos of Egypt: http://www.flickr.com/photos/livinginegypt/ On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Steph Teeter <stephteeter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: You can't - that's the problem, and one of the reasons this disease can keep popping up. Some of the big barns give all the horses antibiotics if any of the horses get sick, just to prevent this.
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