Strangles -- Canada
A preventive vaccine followed by a booster is available for about 65 USD. It doesn't work in the midst of an outbreak, but many horses north of Fredericton have been getting it, according to Wanamaker. She said it's about 60 or 70 per cent effective. "It won't stop the disease," said Wanamaker. "It will at least reduce the severity of the clinical signs, and hopefully the horse won't maybe have as high of a fever, the abscesses may not appear, things like that."
Wanamaker recommends horse
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