I am sorry I made that remark. It was wrong.epetrilli - your posts have been even and informative and you have said nothing wrong... but comments like this is response to someone who was apparently not as alarmed as she was supposed to be and merely expressing her thoughts and opinions ...
... are uncalled for IMO. And definitely come across as snippy. We can discuss this without resorting to that - or so one would hope.
Do you know if these horses actually have any symptoms or just had their titers checked? Many horses who aren't outwardly ill will have positive titers just because this virus has been around for so many years and they've been exposed before and have developed antibodies against it.California has now confirmed secondary infections. (meaning horses who were not at the show are now testing possitive).
http://www.cdfa.ca.g...rpes_virus.html here is a site for california that is a little more up to date. It also states which counties are involved.
Thanks Nathen for the info.I did some research over the weekend, and this strain is NOT anything different from the previous few year's. The ENTIRE EHV-1 neuro strain is a single-point mutation from the normal respiratory version, which is what gives it the added symptoms and neuro effects. That's also why the current EHV-1 vaccines ARE useful, both in preventing and mitigating the diseases. There has been one (just one, never been able to be repeated) research case where the vaccine made the disease WORSE, but like I said, its never been repeated (well, its been attempted, just the results have never been repeated).
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