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Tetanus causes fatal nervous system disease to which
horses are particularly susceptible. Once yearly
vaccination against tetanus provides excellent protection.
All mares should be vaccinated one month before foaling.
Foals should be vaccinated at around eight and nine months
of age. Foals and horses who have not been regularly
vaccinated will be protected only after two
vaccinations given three weeks apart.
Influenza is a common
respiratory disease of horses for which two effective
vaccines exist. Influenza can affect all ages and types of
horses, but is most frustrating because it causes loss of
training time in performance horses ....
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Rhinopneumonitis (Equine
herpes virus) is a virus which can cause fever, cough,
abortion and neurologic disease. Vaccination has been
shown to reduce the risk of disease but vaccinated horses
are not fully protected ....
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Strangles is a highly
contagious disease that causes nasal discharge, fever and
abscesses under the jaw. Occasionally, abscesses form
internally and cause severe illness or death. Vaccination
with Pinnacle intranasally provides good
protection. Strangles is uncommon on the lower mainland of
British Columbia.
West Nile Virus
causes nervous system disease that can result in death.
Scientists predicted that the virus would arrive in B.C
last summer, but to date there have been no cases west of
Alberta. Vaccination provides good protection against
disease.
Sleeping sickness
(western and eastern encephalitis) is a mosquito borne
viral disease that causes fatal nervous system disease in
horses and people. It is not seen in the lower mainland of
British Columbia, but has occurred further east. The
sleeping sickness vaccine is included in many tetanus
vaccines.
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