Pharmacy made mistake in horse drug

[QUICKFIRE]

Just been released on yahoo news that the 21 polo ponies that died at the weekend in florida was due to the pharmacy making a mistake with drugs, took the poor horses upto 3hrs to die, sorry dont know how to put a link up to the story, maybe some one can.

 

[teddyt]

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-deadpolohorses&prov=ap&type=lgns



http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g09QSRi5uzh2Zm3ci9WgthnvFpuwD97NPR782

 

[JadeWisc]

DOH! you just beat me to it!


http://news.aol.com/article/horses-die-b...-match%2F435339

 

[GTs]

Lots of trouble coming there way - the drug combination is illegal in the US, and pharmacists are not allowed to mix drugs, merely mask tastes and change the form it is being sold.

 

[JadeWisc]

What do you think will come of this?

 

[GTs]

A lot of trouble for the pharmacy and the vet - there might be some drug testing for the polo ponies, but I am not sure how it will work.

 

[SirenaXVI]

Sounds like they put too much selenium in it, poor ponies, poor owners too.

 

[jenny_adams]

Very, very disturbing...

 

[GTs]

Horses are given incorrect medication all the time - at a vet school in the US a student (who was 3 weeks from graduation) put feed intended for an NG tube into an IV catheter. How someone does that I do not know.