Free Rabies Vaccines for Some Rescue Horses

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health plans to donate 7,250 doses of EquiRab rabies vaccine to the Unwanted Horse Veterinary Relief Campaign (UHVRC) in honor of World Rabies Day. The donated vaccines were pledged to 150 UHVRC equine rescue and retirement facilities across the country, helping to protect the thousands o

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Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health plans to donate 7,250 doses of EquiRab rabies vaccine to the Unwanted Horse Veterinary Relief Campaign (UHVRC) in honor of World Rabies Day. The donated vaccines were pledged to 150 UHVRC equine rescue and retirement facilities across the country, helping to protect the thousands of horses in their care from contracting the fatal disease.

World Rabies Day, held annually Sept. 28, was created to increase awareness of rabies and encourage animal vaccination in order to prevent human rabies cases worldwide. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health has been a major supporter of World Rabies Day by donating to the Afya Serengeti project. Since 2003, Intervet/Schering-Plough has donated more than 900,000 doses of canine rabies vaccines to vaccinate dogs in Tanzania.

The company will increase its support for the 2009 World Rabies Day by helping unwanted horses as well. With the donation of EquiRab to UHVRC, more than 7,000 unwanted horses will receive protection against the untreatable disease.

“Rabies is a preventable disease that people and their animals die from every year,” said Cynthia Guitierrez, DVM, equine technical services veterinarian for Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health. “World Rabies Day is a way of increasing awareness of the disease and promoting prevention through vaccinations. Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health is dedicated to protecting all horses against rabies, including those deemed unwanted

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