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Title: “Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism

Lif Strand wrote:

At 11:12 AM 9/21/2009, Sisu West Ranch wrote:

Not true.  When Leroy Coggins test for EIA first became available, in the 70's there were places in Florida where 40% were positive, now even in Florida a positive is rare.

Well, you're right - but it isn't the test that controls the disease, it's offing the horses that test positive that takes care of it!  Seriously, I don't doubt that the use of Coggins testing has helped control EIA, but I do doubt that negative Coggins results are a guarantee of an EIA-free horse, particularly when the test was done a year before.

Ah........the testing identified which horses needed to be eliminated from the population. Now EIA is rate in Florida. Public health issues are always a trade between how much power to give the state to eliminate the problem and how much impact you put on the population. Sure if you passed a law that ever horse would never be able to leave its premise and no horses could enter the state - done deal. However, that's not the solution. The solution is one that works and the 12 month Coggins seems to work well.

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“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.” Earl Warren, former Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court