Virginia authorities urge horse vaccinations
Horse owners inwards Virginia are beingness urged to vaccinate their horses against West Nile virus (WNV), eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) together with rabies.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture together with Consumer Services is suggesting all Equus caballus owners banking concern check alongside their veterinarians for vaccination recommendations for their animals.
Virginia had alone 1 confirmed illustration of West Nile inwards 2012 together with no cases of EEE, although the pose out of horses affected inwards previous years together with inwards other states was much higher.
State officials are concerned that Equus caballus owners may survive lulled into inaction past times the lack of illness activity final year, together with fail vaccination this year.
“We silent urge Equus caballus owners to consider EEE together with WNV vaccination.” says Dr Charles Broaddus, programme director for the department’s Office of Veterinary Services.
“We never know what musquito activity volition survive inwards whatever given year, although alongside a moisture wintertime together with spring, it could survive heavy inwards 2013.
“The bottom trouble is, these vaccines are really condom together with effective. We believe that inwards most cases, mortal veterinarians volition recommend them for their clients. Horse-owners involve to survive aware that the vaccines require boosters every vi to twelve months.”
Broaddus added that the subdivision likewise is suggesting that owners banking concern check virtually rabies vaccinations for their horses this year.
“In the past times few years, nosotros convey seen similar or greater numbers of cases of rabies inwards horses every bit WNV together with EEE,” he said.
Vaccines are available to drastically cut the incidence of WNV together with EEE inwards horses.
The vaccines are effective for vi to twelve months, together with hence horses should survive re-vaccinated at to the lowest degree annually.
In areas where the illness occurs frequently, most veterinarians recommend vaccination every vi months.
For the vaccine to survive effective it must survive handled together with administered properly together with survive given at to the lowest degree ii weeks earlier the Equus caballus is exposed to the virus.
Additionally, to get total immunity, horses must survive vaccinated twice, virtually thirty days apart, the get-go twelvemonth that the Equus caballus is vaccinated.
Other prevention methods include destroying standing H2O breeding sites for mosquitoes, using insect repellents together with removing animals from mosquito-infested areas during peak biting times, commonly dusk to dawn.
Rabies vaccines are likewise effective together with vaccinating horses annually tin terminate forestall rabies inwards both horses together with humans.
In improver to taking measures to decrease the likelihood that horses volition survive exposed to rabies, routine rabies vaccination is an of import appear of illness prevention. Virginia typically reports 1-2 horses alongside rabies per twelvemonth together with final twelvemonth reported 4.
EEE, WNV together with rabies displace neurological signs inwards horses, such every bit staggering, circling, depression, loss of appetite together with sometimes fever together with blindness.
There is no cure for the diseases, which tin terminate kill anywhere from thirty per cent (WNV) to xc per cent (EEE) to 100 per cent (rabies) of the horses infected.
Humans cannot croak infected alongside EEE or WNV past times treatment an infected horse, nor tin terminate a Equus caballus instruct the virus from to a greater extent than or less other infected horse; however, the presence of an infected Equus caballus inwards the expanse indicates that mosquitoes carrying EEE or WNV are introduce together with those insects pose a threat to both humans together with horses. Humans tin terminate croak infected alongside rabies past times treatment a rabid horse.
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