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Keeping Your Horse Healthy And West Nile Virus
In equestrian sports keeping your horse healthy and happy is paramount. Having to worry about West Nile Virus is no laughing matter. Mosquitoes home in on CO2 and thus the horse as it breaths and exhales puts out quite a bit and the mosquito sees this from half a football field away and comes to investigate.
You can imagine a top performing Equestrian Horse, it’s value and the threat of West Nile infection. In many states horses and livestock have been infected. Although since it is a blood disease they will not spread it to other animals directly, still it is not good for that individual horse and certainly not good if you have to compete that week.
West Nile can indeed kill a horse, but generally not always. The mosquito is not the only virus vector, as the vectors include birds because an infected bird might fly a thousand miles and have another mosquito take a shot at it, infecting that mosquito.
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Each of these Mosquitoes will bite one human and maybe one bird or 2-3 birds before laying 400 eggs, so yes big issues. For livestock and horses one good bite of a horse and the mosquito is ready to lay its eggs. West Nile and Horses information;
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/qa/w...
http://ohioline.osu.edu/wnv-fact/1007.html
http://pubs.cas.psu.edu/freepubs/pdfs/un008.p...
I certainly hope this article is of interest and that is has propelled thought. The goal is simple; to help you in your quest to be the best in 2007. I thank you for reading my many articles on diverse subjects, which interest you.
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