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Pets & Working Animals => Horses, ponies, donkeys & mules => Topic started by: little blue on September 10, 2010, 06:35:59 pm

Title: "swamp fever" Northumberland
Post by: little blue on September 10, 2010, 06:35:59 pm

http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/397/301657.html

Title: Re: "swamp fever" Northumberland
Post by: faith0504 on September 10, 2010, 06:39:47 pm

gosh thats scary, least they have controlled it, that is one horsey problem we dont need in this country

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Post by: daddymatty82 on September 10, 2010, 09:55:35 pm

had that down the road from me earlier in the year  a known dealer in the area imported it from belgium

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Post by: rbarlo32 on September 11, 2010, 01:19:14 pm

really hope it never comes to shetland

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Post by: Daisy on September 12, 2010, 10:57:32 am

I've heard that another case has been diagnosed in Devon in a horse that has been in the country for 2 years

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Post by: faith0504 on September 12, 2010, 11:24:07 am

oh gosh no that is not good news at all

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Post by: Daisy on September 12, 2010, 12:43:40 pm

I've heard that once a horse has been infected it always has the disease, so this horse may have had it before it arrived here