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Kung Fu Chinny!
This is about Strangles, also known as Equine Strep and one of the most rapid-spreading contagious diseases known to horses.
This started in CA and is now running around almost every state in the U.S. wiping out unknowing and unlucky herds and not even a PEEP out of people. There is no cure and nothing you can do to save the animals and there are now several breeders selling carriers. The chinchillas that survive will always be carriers and always pass it to other chinchillas (and heaven forbid, horses or humans, it does happen).
It's a well known issue in horses and I vaccinate mine yearly for it.
Just found out that one it popped up in my state from a local vet. Here is a very good article on it; http://suite101.com/a/chinchillas-and-the-strangles-a282106
Here is what it does to horses, I'll let you google the pictures; https://online.zoetis.com/GB/EN/Conditions/Pages/Equine%E2%80%93Streptococcusinfections.aspx
Here is a lovely example of where it jumped to humans; http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/media/pdf/EID_7-13_HorseStrep.pdf
To recap;
There is a highly contagious lifelong disease running around in chinchillas that has a 30-45% death rate, no cure, and nobody is talking but they ARE happily selling animals to unknowing buyers and infecting other herds.
How do you feel about this?
This started in CA and is now running around almost every state in the U.S. wiping out unknowing and unlucky herds and not even a PEEP out of people. There is no cure and nothing you can do to save the animals and there are now several breeders selling carriers. The chinchillas that survive will always be carriers and always pass it to other chinchillas (and heaven forbid, horses or humans, it does happen).
It's a well known issue in horses and I vaccinate mine yearly for it.
Just found out that one it popped up in my state from a local vet. Here is a very good article on it; http://suite101.com/a/chinchillas-and-the-strangles-a282106
Here is what it does to horses, I'll let you google the pictures; https://online.zoetis.com/GB/EN/Conditions/Pages/Equine%E2%80%93Streptococcusinfections.aspx
Here is a lovely example of where it jumped to humans; http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/media/pdf/EID_7-13_HorseStrep.pdf
To recap;
There is a highly contagious lifelong disease running around in chinchillas that has a 30-45% death rate, no cure, and nobody is talking but they ARE happily selling animals to unknowing buyers and infecting other herds.
How do you feel about this?
