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CherylA
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Username: canderso
Post Number: 366
Registered: 3-2000
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 7:44 am: |   |
Dr O,
A comment in another discussion twigged what I thought was a weird statement from the government vet who is overseeing the quarantine of my mares: While the government vets will pull the blood for blood tests, they do not do swabs for CEM 'because of liability reasons'.
I would think there would be much more liability associated with piercing the skin than with taking swabs.
If I understand the tests correctly, it is also the blood tests that generate any decision to return or destroy the animal (i.e., the decisions with really BIG consequences), not the swabs.
I don't get it...
Dr. O, can you shed a little light on this?
Thanks,
Cheryl |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: dro
Post Number: 18592
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 9:49 pm: | |
I am afraid I am clueless on this CherylA. It may not be on the radar for them, a disease of little concern, but I do not understand the liability issue.
DrO |
