Re: RC: Strangles

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/14/99 7:28:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Dbeverly4@aol.com writes:

<< I would love to hear from the vets on this one as I have been under the 
 assumption that the virus can live for a very long time on things like horse 
 blankets, halters, buckets, etc. >>

Strangles is not a virus--it is a bacterium called Streptococcus equi.  It 
can, however, live for a long time on various "stuff" such as you have named.

Heidi


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