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Discussion on Salmonilla Scare...Should I be worried?
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Posted on Wednesday, Jun 2, 1999 - 7:26 am:
Well,
You cannot treat Salmonella very well. It develops resistance to antibiotics quickly and is persistant in the environment. However you can isolate salmonella from a large portion of the healthy horse population so if you put every horse down with Salmonella we would have nothing to ride. The whole things seems very bizzare. I have never heard of putting down otherwise healthy animals just because they have been exposed to salmonella.
DrO
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Posted on Saturday, Jun 5, 1999 - 4:04 pm:
I'm just heartsick at reading this thread. I was looking through the postings for something to help my friend who is boarding a horse at a stable where one horse has died and another is sick from what may be salmonella. I was shocked to see that a vet would have someone "put down" an entire population of a farm for this. The two horses involved here were both sent to the state University Vet School, so maybe we'll have something more positive to add to the thread pretty soon. Meanwhile, I am off to seek more information about the condition itself.
Nina
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Posted on Sunday, Jun 6, 1999 - 12:35 am:
Well to update; the Vetrinarian for the Department
of Agriculture tried to contact his lady. She has,
to put it in nice terms, gone off the deep end.
She is threatening all of the governing athorities
that if they try to stop her from burning this
"Pile of contaminated carcuses" she would bring in
the media because according to her there is a wide
spread cover up of contamination in our area. Can
we say NUT CASE! The Dr. with Dept of Ag then
decided to go talk to this ladies vet in hopes of
talking sence in to one of them or find out where
a breakdown in communication happened. This has
been like a a really cheesey novel.
Nina- I certainly hope that they do find better
news at the vet hospital. I think the case here is
a lady who is broke, distraught, and a touch on
the emotional side. Please let us know what
happens. I'll be intrested to see what happens
with this if you have raltional vet and client.
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