I don't think the panic is over the number of cases, more the strain and the fact vaccinated horses are getting it. There's talk in one of the racing post articles about suspicions that is it a mutated version. If that were the case it would render current vaccinations less effective at best.Thanks for posting those reported cases, @Jessey. I'd be interested to compare it to reports from the same time last year, to see if it really IS an outbreak....or whether it is just more in the public eye because it has hit the racing industry.
Thanks for posting those reported cases, @Jessey. I'd be interested to compare it to reports from the same time last year, to see if it really IS an outbreak....or whether it is just more in the public eye because it has hit the racing industry.
Plenty of horses get a snotty nose for a couple of days and it's probably put down to dusty hay etc. Are they just finding something that has always been there because they are suddenly testing for it?
Mine was off colour when she had hers done.So, if it's a mutated version of the flu which our horses have been vaccinated against is there really any point in a booster? I guess it's a bit belt and braces.
I had an email about it from the BHS yesterday, they said that there were only 2 confirmed cases in the whole of 2018 so if we've had 8 or 9 so far this year that's a huge increase.
Belle was vaccinated in May last year so out of the 6 month protection time frame, I'm undecided if the get the booster for her though as our vets, big equine vets, have said they have had a lot of cases of lammi following flu vaccination recently and to be honest I don't know which is worst for her, the risk of flu or the potential risk of lammi
Yes, by definition that's how a vaccine works, though I'm not sure if flu is a live vaccine.Mine was off colour when she had hers done.
Sore feet, general lethargic, switched off.
I don't know if works to give you the flu virus for the body to fight it off type thing?
Yes, by definition that's how a vaccine works, though I'm not sure if flu is a live vaccine.