Help Please....Strangles Query

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I don't know enough about stangles so thought I'd post a cry for advice please.
I found out today that a yard which is half a mile down the road from us has a horse that has been confirmed as suffering from strangles. The horses there have no contact with the horses on the livery yard where I'm based, although we do use the same hacks (forestry) and they have to hack up a road pass our fields to get there.
So my questions are:
How's it transmitted (I was under the impression it was direct contact or shared air space?)
My dilema is that I'm supposed to be going to my trainers tomorrow for a lesson, should I go, or stay home?
What precausions should my YO be taking, all she's done is put a note on the board saying 'don't let your horses come into contact with any others'??
Today, before this was announced, people from my yard have been out hacking and a couple have been to shows, should they have?
Am I over reacting??!!!
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Thank you if you've got this far!!!
 
The yard concerned should be quarenteened & they should not be allowing any of their horses to leave the yard, or allowing any external horses onto their yard. This I'm afraid will be the case until they are given the all clear by their vets - 3 clear swabs or scope.
As long as your horses have no contact with them i.e ajacent fields you are ok to carry on as you are.
I speak from experience as my boy had it in the summer (no idea where he got it from
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) All my yard were confined to barracks for 3 1/2 months.
It is spread by direct contact or fluids i.e mucus, but can be carried on peoples clothes etc, so they should be disinfecting themselves & changing clothes when they leave their yard as well.
I hope that helps. Be thankful that they are being open about & hopefully they will be taking the right precausions.
 
Thank you Quarrybank, thats reall useful info, so glad to hear that we should be ok as no one from that yard comes onto our yard.
I hope your boy is ok now?
The yard in question haven't exactly been open about it, someone who keeps their horse at that yard had told a friends instructor about it. I did think it odd that I hadn't seen anyone hacking out from there today, but knowing what I know now I'm glad I didn't see any of them! Its a riding school as well and apparently lessons were still going on as normal, which I suppose is ok ish providing, as you say, the necessary precautions are taken.
Thanks again.
 
Thanks,very useful fact sheet. I've printed it off to put on the notice board as I think a lot of people on the yard are unclear about how and what to do etc!
 
yard should be closed for the duration of the illness and all
as its highly contagious
disfectant rules apply rubber gloves
all equipement stables and yard should be dinfected
and should have a jeyes fluid footbath at exit entry point
 
our yard got strangles a year ago after someone entering one of our shows brought it here. The 4 ponies that tested positive (sadly one being mine) were quarantined, just as they had passed each test, a horse on grass livery a good mile away from ours down the track came down with it(there were seperate workers for the strangles yard and the normal yard, plus no one really touches the grass ponies so no idea how that happened). YO rang around and apparently a yard about three miles behind the grass livery field through a big woods and across a road had it, so we guess it was airbourne from there!
 
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