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Ann
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Username: Dres
Post Number: 581
Registered: 10-2000
| | Posted on Friday, Aug 19, 2005 - 11:08 am: |   |
In CA. we are vaccinating our horses twice yearly for this awful illness, in my area alone there have been several human deaths.... My question is my 6 month shot is due for my horses,I have one mare that is not 100 days along in her pregnancy... I have read that I should not give her ANY shots prior to this... Is there a time when it would be safer to vaccinate her..? Last year, we did our mares, but they were well past the 100 days...
Thanks as usual for you incite...
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Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: Dro
Post Number: 13563
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Saturday, Aug 20, 2005 - 10:15 am: | |
There is no strong reason not to go ahead and vaccinate, unless perhaps this mare has troubles with her vaccines, but then again it is uncertain that 2 times yearly with WNV is better than once yearly. If you wanted to wait a short while just to be sure you don't have an unusual reaction I suspect that would be fine. For more on the studies on efficacy and reaction to the WNV vaccine see, Equine Diseases » Nervous System » Incoordination, Weakness, Spasticity, Tremors » West Nile Virus.
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