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Increase of Rabies in Horses
Spring 2013 Horses were rarely vaccinated for rabies because it was so uncommon. However there has been a change and not a good one. Rabies has made its way West moving from the Eastern United States. Where bats were once the chief source of rabies, it is now being found with increasing alarm in ground […]