Current Equine Vaccines Available - Check out the links to find out information on these viral diseases: Tetnus, Equine Encephalomyelitis, Equine Influenza, Equine Herpes Virus 1 and 4, Strangles, Rabies, Potomac Horse Fever, Toxicoinfectious Botulism, Equine Viral Arteritis, Anthrax, Rotaviral Diarrhea, West Nile Virus.

The one most important vaccine is the Encephalitis and Tetanus. This vaccine is important to ALL horses of all ages because infection with the Eastern variety of encephalitis and also with Tetanus is usually fatal. The vaccine usually comes with the Eastern, Western varieties combined with the Tetanus.

Information and guidelines about vaccinating your horse. Articles: Horse Vaccination and Deworming Primer; Foal Vaccinations For the Record - Keeping Medical Records; Injection Infections; Injection Reactions in Horses; Should You Vaccinate for EPM?; Allergy to Vaccines?; Vaccinate Now for Maximum Protection.

After these questions are answered a vaccination protocol can be recommend. How old is your horse? How healthy is your horse? What diseases are present in your area? Where and how is your horse stabled? What activities do you and your horse participate in? How fearful are you that your horse will get sick or die if you do not vaccinate? Are you willing to change your management, if necessary, to prevent disease and support your horse's immune system.

Recommended Horse Vaccinations by Steven Edwards, DVM. The following is a list of vaccinations available for use in the horse. Initial vaccinations are usually given after the horse has reached three months of age.

Vaccinate Horses for West Nile Virus and Other Diseases, Auburn, Aug 30, 2002. The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a conditional license for an equine WNV vaccine late last summer. Conditional licensing means that the product has been shown to be safe, pure and have a reasonable expectation of efficacy in preventing illness caused by WNV.