But school us a

little bit, would you? Yeah.

So you had a lot of questions in there.

So following up on Dr. Priscilla's comments, the...

There's been a couple of papers that have looked at rostral nasal swabs, and he's right about having multiple samples.

A group in Sweden did a study looking at multiple samples.

You definitely get more results that way.

And when should I be giving that? And, you know, because it's not part of the AAP core recommendations, correct?

Once you have a confirmed case or confirmed cases, do you typically go in and start recommending treatments? Do you let the disease run its course? What would your approach be to managing some of these confirmed positive cases?

Yeah, so it really depends on the horse and what's going on with that particular horse.

It's actually not recommended to treat these horses with antibiotics automatically because often you actually have to treat them for an extended period of time.

If they, depending on where they are in their stage of the disease, especially if they already have the lymph node enlargement, it can actually, the ba- the treatment with antibiotics can actually prolong those swellings and make them take longer to mature and abscess and rupture, and it just kind of prolongs the course of the total disease.

And so we really are recommending doing antibiotics for the welfare of the horse.

And so basically what that means, if the horse needs antibiotics because they are having trouble eating despite Treating them with nonsteroidals, so bute or phenylbutazone or me- meglumine, and basically you're using those nonsteroidals to lower their fever, make them feel better, to not have the sore throat feeling so that they do wanna eat and drink and they can...

And basically you're providing them supportive care, and you may want to ch- feed them softer food, such as mashes plus or minus wet hay to encourage them to eat, and to basically provide them with supportive care.

What role does vaccination play in all of this? Because I know that, you know, that's not necessarily one of our core vaccines, but do you typically recommend strangles vaccination for horses? Do you find it effective, and is it actually helpful during an active outbreak, or is that something you need to do before an outbreak ever even occurs at your property?