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Rosedias schreef:

Ik heb mijn shetlander afgelopen woensdag moeten laten inslapen. Hij had exact deze verschijnselen. Er zijn vier dierenartsen bij hem geweest over een langere periode, maar geen enkele wist wat hij precies had. Hij heeft verschillende dingen toegediend gekregen, maar niets werkte.

Ik zal eens de dierenarts bellen en vragen of het dit kan zijn geweest.

johanna29 schreef:

Zo gaan ze er in Amerika mee om...
https://www.aqha.com/daily/health/2017/ ... ile-virus/

Delphi2 schreef:

Nog 2 paarden op dezelfde stal bij Düsseldorf

MarrieLeen schreef:

Delphi2 schreef:

Nog 2 paarden op dezelfde stal bij Düsseldorf

Heb je daar een bron van?

Kermis schreef:

Dit filmpje kwam ik van de week tegen op YouTube. Gaat over een geval in Italië. https://youtu.be/4rx4R8gEtSk

Citaat:

Published on Sep 28, 2011

With this video Italian Horse Protection Association wants to denounce the general ignorance the Italian authorities show every day in the regards of Equine Infectious Anaemia, the psychological terrorism created by such ignorance, and the useless waste of resources caused by the huge national control plan. This waste carries with it the suffering of a social animal forced to live isolated and separated by its human friend or the horror of the "death journeys" toward the slaughterhouse.

The Equine Infectious Anaemia is a little-researched disease; in fact, up to a few years ago, all the horses found positive to the testing were immediately slaughtered.

The disease can be transmitted by blood-sucking insects or due to the use of infected veterinary tools (the only ascertain event of this kind in Italy happened in 2006, due to the use of contaminated blood products).

The tests currently used to determine the positivity to the disease (ELISA and AGID aka Coggins), reveal only the occurred contact between the animal's immune system and the virus. According to the Italian National Veterinary Association, "positive horses present a viraemia level generally insufficient for the transmission of the disease via blood-sucking insects"( ANMVI, 25 novembre 2009), thus positive specimens are not, as general rule, contagious. Really sick animals are different matter.

In Italy there is an ongoing control plan about EIA that can only be called huge. Despite being downsized by the last ordinance on this subject, it led to the testing of more than 200.000 horses, mules and hinnies in 2009, with an enormous use of resources. About 300 animals were found positive (source, IZSLT, 2009). By a statistical point of view, if we remove the outliers (statically abnormal results), we have a percentage of positivity well below 1%. More, it is prudently estimated the 90% of the positive animals will never develop the disease and thus will never be a source of contagion. Thus we can conclude that the infection's spreading potential is almost nil. (For more info about the criteria used to remove the outliers, check our 28th January 2011 article ).

All of this meant that every year hundreds of equines have been torn away from their humans companions to be uselessly isolated (if not downright sent to slaughter), without any benefit for the country's livestock heritage; it just caused pain and fuelled Middle Age-like fears based on ignorance.

Just for comparison, the calculated percentage of Leishmania-positive dogs is 2600% higher than the percentage of EIA-positive horses. Every dog caretaker in Italy with a bit of common sense takes the necessary precautions to prevent the diffusion of Leishmania, but no one would ever even think to put down or isolate all the positive dogs. Yet, Leishmania-positive dogs, contrary to Equine Infectious Anaemia-positive horses, are contagious, sometimes even toward humans.

Italian Horse Protection asks the Health Ministry to start a campaign of education for the local authorities, and to put an end to the National Control Plan, redirecting the thus-saved resources toward the study of the disease and the research of cures for the (few) really sick animals.

No_No schreef:

Zijn die polopaarden allemaal op de zelfde locatie geweest?

Babootje schreef:

Hoeveel paarden zijn er ook niet drager van de neurologische variant van Rhino. De meeste paarden hebben de ene of andere variant van Rhino gewoon bij zich en wordt het pas actief op het moment dat deze wordt getriggerd. Feitlijk is dit gewoon hetzelfde. Niet alle sero-positieve paarden krijgen de ziekte en niet alle zieke paarden overlijden eraan. Zolang het virus niet overdraagbaar is naar de mens zie ik niet, waarom hier anders zou moeten worden gehandeld dan bij Rhino.

Kendra schreef:

En die in Hamburg? Weet iemand wat dat voor paarden zijn?