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<blockquote data-quote="Linda" data-source="post: 46896" data-attributes="member: 50"><p>Coggins is not the name of the disease. Coggins is the name of the test used to look for the disease in a horse. The actual disease is EIA = Equine Infectious Anemia. </p><p></p><p>I believe the reason the horsefly is suspected of being the primary vector is that its bite is big and it transmits a large amount of infectious material in one bite. There is a much greater transmission of blood in the bite of a horsefly. Is it that the infectious matter doesn't live long in the fly, or is it because the fly doesn't roam very far, thus most horses infected are in fairly close proximity to each other? I believe it's the latter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Linda, post: 46896, member: 50"] Coggins is not the name of the disease. Coggins is the name of the test used to look for the disease in a horse. The actual disease is EIA = Equine Infectious Anemia. I believe the reason the horsefly is suspected of being the primary vector is that its bite is big and it transmits a large amount of infectious material in one bite. There is a much greater transmission of blood in the bite of a horsefly. Is it that the infectious matter doesn't live long in the fly, or is it because the fly doesn't roam very far, thus most horses infected are in fairly close proximity to each other? I believe it's the latter. [/QUOTE]
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