Strangles advice

[Mercurius]

We recently moved yards, and 1horse of the livery horses has been diagnosed with strangles positive to nasal swab.
The YM has deep cleaned all the stables and all the horse are turned out at the moment with the positive strangles horse in quarrintine .
The vet has advised all the other horses to have nasal swabs over the next 3 weeks.
Is this advisable.if any of the remaining horse test positive how long would we have to wait before we could safely leave this yard.

 

[Rob Lakeside]

Hi
If you check out my posts on strangles in berkshire/East Berkshire, I can confidently say 7-12 weeks from diagnosise to a clean bill of health for the yard.

My manager Georgi has people asking her for advise currently. So phone her
R

 

[OakleyEarth]

We had it a couple of years ago. Despite immediate quarantine of the first horse to go down with it it went through about 20 of the horses in some shape of form. We followed the 'gold standard' o treatment under advice from vets- we had all horses blood tested (and they all bar two came back positive for infection) but only a handful displayed symptoms. All the horses that tested positive ( or who we knew had it from symptoms) had a guttural pouch wash once the virus had
Worked it's way through and (touch wood) all fine since.

It's a big pain in the arse but generally not as bad as people think as long as it's managed well.

Realistically depending on how many horses at yard and the treatment you go for- you can expect to be stuck in for a good few weeks :-(

Alot of people just carry on as normal but this is where the problem ones from

Good luck hopefully the quarantine will be enough

 

[OakleyEarth]

Ps from memory once the last infected horse has tested positive I think the vets say you need to allow 14 days (incubation period) to be sure you're all clear