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Re: Rabies
According to the Washington State Department of Health, there has only been
a single reported case of rabies in horses since 1930, and that occurred in
1990. See http://198.187.0.42/Topics/rabies/rabsum.html. Of course, we are
talking about state government and 30 years is a long time.
Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net
-----Original Message-----
From: cberto@juno.com <cberto@juno.com>
To: paus@micoks.net <paus@micoks.net>
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Thursday, March 05, 1998 1:16 PM
Subject: Rabies
>Chris, here in Marin County (CA), almost everyone gives an annual rabies
>booster to horses, cats, dogs (in fact required for dog licensing). We
>are in a high rabies endemic area. About 30 years ago there was a
>celebrated case of horse rabies at a local Arabian show/breeding ranch.
>What happened: the stallion sickened, acted up progressively to the
>point he had to be put down. Half of the brain was sent to the county
>lab which blew the test, saying no rabies. Meanwhile a mare this stud
>had bred showed the same symptoms up in WA state and was put down, only
>her postmortem correctly showed rabies. WOW! Then the _other_ half of
>the stud's brain, which had been saved, was retested and showed, guess
>what, rabies. Then everything hit the fan, because quite a few people
>had handled the stud with no protection. They had to undergo all the
>vaccines which in those days were painful. No humans got it,
>fortunately, but then the lawsuits began....anyhow, it's routine for us,
>we hold shot clinics annually and to my knowledge nobody's had problems
>with 4-in-1, rhino, flu, rabies, whatever. Cheers, (;-), Connie
>
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