EVA Vaccine? Fort Dodge

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My Shagya stallion is due for his EVA vaccine - my French vet tells me there is a manufacturing problem and shortage??

If he we miss we will have to start again.

Anyone heard of this? I will also post in veterinary forum.
 
BallyshanHorses said:
Rollin,they were/are impossible to get and could not get any last year either.Dont know what the solution is.There are ones available here I think as of this month so could ask around for you.
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I have found two doses in the UK. Do you know why there is a problem?

As you know once vaccinated it is important to keep up stallions protection. I know France has frequent problems with horses coming in from Eastern Europe where it is endemic.
 
Im afraid i dont do mine now.
Once they started to require it being done every 6 months i found that one of mine started to have a very bad reaction to it.
I spoke to a number of other people that had the same problem and know of one that nearly died.
We have an eu license so we have to know the stallions are eva free and now we just have the semen tested every 6 months instead.
And everything coming onto the stud also has to be tested too.
 
sallyf said:
Im afraid i dont do mine now.
Once they started to require it being done every 6 months i found that one of mine started to have a very bad reaction to it.
I spoke to a number of other people that had the same problem and know of one that nearly died.
We have an eu license so we have to know the stallions are eva free and now we just have the semen tested every 6 months instead.
And everything coming onto the stud also has to be tested too.
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EVA can be transmitted via the respiratory route. I had a mare test positive after she had been to stud in France, the stallion was free and covered other mares of ours. However, during that summer they had a mare in an adjoining field from Romania.

France has strict rules on EVA and CEM testing they still had a major outbreak of EVA in Normandy two years ago.

It costs but I prefer to vaccinate and have not had a reaction.
 
Rollin said:
EVA can be transmitted via the respiratory route. I had a mare test positive after she had been to stud in France, the stallion was free and covered other mares of ours. However, during that summer they had a mare in an adjoining field from Romania.

France has strict rules on EVA and CEM testing they still had a major outbreak of EVA in Normandy two years ago.

It costs but I prefer to vaccinate and have not had a reaction.
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Yes transmitted via the respiratory route so as long as your horses dont have contact with others that have it there shouldnt be a problem which ours dont.
It would have to be direct contact or via insemination/covering.
The stud your mare went to i guess dont test everything that goes onto there property.
If everything is tested the risk should be minimal.
My 2 boys are now quite old ,one is retired anyway so doesnt cover and the other had such a bad reaction from the 6 month vaccine that even the vet suggested we didnt do as he was concerned about him.
BTW he had a high temp and filled legs and for 2 weeks had blood in his semen after the vaccination which is definately enough for me to stop.
He had been vaccinated for 10 years previous to that annually with no problem.
The semen tests we do are significently more expensive than the vaccine as obviously the bloods will show positive after being vaccinated for so long and there is only 2 places that do semen tests that are acceptable to the avla (defra) which is who i have to submit results to as we have an export license.
 
The stud did demand both CEM and EVA tests. The mare was in another field. We don't know she was the source it was just that at that time our mares had not had contact with any other horses.

Now we take part in endurance and hack out so keeping horses isolated from others is not possible. Also I am mindful of the fact that we have no borders in continental europe.

I quite understand why you don't vaccinate your horse now.
 
Rollin said:
The stud did demand both CEM and EVA tests. The mare was in another field. We don't know she was the source it was just that at that time our mares had not had contact with any other horses.

Now we take part in endurance and hack out so keeping horses isolated from others is not possible. Also I am mindful of the fact that we have no borders in continental europe.

I quite understand why you don't vaccinate your horse now.
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It must have been passed on by human contact then , It can much the same as strangles can be.
If we could get away with vaccinating every 12 months i would but they just wont allow us to.
Its now either every 6 months or not at all so we have chosen the not at all route for obvious reasons.
Its all very silly really as when we do bloods they read high as they have been vaccinated so long.
Even my vet agrees its all silly.
Its ridiculous we have blood tests from before vaccination ,after the initial course etc etc but still they have changed it to 6 monthy.
Its about 3 years since they changed it from the initial 2 a month apart and then once every 12 months after a blood test.
 
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