Re: Any one remember Tracy Mesienbach?

Dr. Newell wrote:
So the colt tested negative for rabies, then? It was entirely unclear
from the previous posts.

To tell the truth I don't know HOW the state lab determines it. The
saliva tested for rabies and had coon DNA. So if they want to say the
colt had rabies present in his body, then I'd have to say it was
accurate because he DID have rabid saliva on him, and in all
likelihood he would have caught rabies from a bite because he didn't
have his adult shots. I know they wouldn't give us his body back and
let us bury it in our pet cemetary, and because his blood and the
dog's saliva got on my husband and daughter, when they tried to save
the colt, the lab people said they had to get rabies shots right away.
So I'm not sure how it's determined. If an animal is killed by a rabid
animal is the dead animal percieved as having the rabies virus on it?
The state health people were pretty weird when they came out, because
they had never dealt with a rabies attack on a horse farm and had NO
desire to handle the horses at all. They didn't even want to walk in
the barn. They just had us sign some forms and then said we had to
confine the unvaccinated goat.
We also had to dig up the bloody dirt and dispose of it and spray down
any surfaces we thought the dog might have come in contact with.

It was not handled in the same way that rabies incidents are handled
in Texas and AZ, where rabies is epidemic, in fact they seemed pretty
confused.


Tracy Meisenbach
www.trinityapp.com
http://thehorsediary.blogspot.com/ (updated 3-29-2008)


Of all the branches of the animal kingdom,
none like the equine, is so afflicted with experts,
self pronounced, or raised to that status of "them
as knows best" by a reputation.
Alexander Cameron MRCVS



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  • Re: Any one remember Tracy Mesienbach?
    ... saliva tested for rabies and had coon DNA. ... A positive would be if they isolated the virus from the brain tissue of the colt. ... They probably wouldn't want to handle the horses if it were a case of galloping ringworm... ...
    (rec.equestrian)
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