Influenza Vaccination

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Equine influenza is a common respiratory infection. While it affects many horses, it has a low mortality rate; horses generally recover. However, flu can cause your horse physical distress, it’s highly contagious, and it can keep your horse out of training and competition for weeks or months for recovery.

Vaccination can prevent or minimize infection. Foals can be vaccinated against influenza as young as nine months old. The latest weapon in the fight against flu is a modified live virus vaccine.

There is more than one way to protect your horses against flu, but diligent management and proper vaccination schedules are musts. This free report provides the horse owner and caretaker with an overview of the latest news from researchers on equine influenza.

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Heather Smith Thomas ranches with her husband near Salmon, Idaho, raising cattle and a few horses. She has a B.A. in English and history from University of Puget Sound (1966). She has raised and trained horses for 50 years, and has been writing freelance articles and books nearly that long, publishing 20 books and more than 9,000 articles for horse and livestock publications. Some of her books include Understanding Equine Hoof Care, The Horse Conformation Handbook, Care and Management of Horses, Storey’s Guide to Raising Horses and Storey’s Guide to Training Horses. Besides having her own blog, www.heathersmiththomas.blogspot.com, she writes a biweekly blog at https://insidestorey.blogspot.com that comes out on Tuesdays.

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