[Equine_Harmony]

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08:11 AM CDT on Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Associated Press

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Veterinarians at Texas A&M University are trying
to help determine what caused more than two dozen horses to die at a College
Station stable.

Twenty-eight horses died within a 24-hour period between Sunday and Monday,
said Brad Raphel, co-owner of the Carousel Acres Equestrian Center and
Stable. He said Tuesday that two-thirds of his personal herd of show horses
was among those that died. The stable had 60 horses total, including some
that were being boarded there.

"We had some beautiful imported stallions and mares--quite expensive.
They're down," he said.
Raphel and his wife, Beverly, first noticed something wrong with the horses
Sunday afternoon. He said that tests were being conducted to find the cause
of death for the horses, but the deaths were likely not caused by anything
contagious.

"We've had the autopsies done and they think it was one of the toxins used
to kill the weevils," Raphel said.

H. Richard Adams, dean of the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary
Medicine, said that the school is doing tests on the tissues and
gastrointestinal content of the horses in conjunction with the State
Veterinary Diagnostic Lab, which is also doing tests on the horses' feed and
bedding.

"The fact that this occurred so quickly suggests that there was a toxic
principle released somehow within those stables to have affected so many
horses so quickly. We have some compounds that we are pursuing but it's not
definitive yet," Adams said Tuesday. "I'm not aware of anything that's ever
happened of this magnitude and suddenness.

Adams said that it could take up to 48 hours for tests to determine the
cause of the horses' deaths.




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[Equine_Harmony]

I added this for there is a toxin that may have killed theses horses, a toxin I want horse owners to know about. This is a very tramatic loss for theses owners, I can't imagine the pain.

[Blistering Winds]

There are 2 other threads floating around too with good info.

Maybe the mods can link them together........

[Equine_Harmony]

Originally Posted by Blistering Winds

There are 2 other threads floating around too with good info.

Maybe the mods can link them together........

With the same issue? the toxins, wow, I sure hope this can save horses lifes, by spreading the word.

Thank you,

Tammy

[Blistering Winds]

Vets in Brazo's County Investigate 2 dozen overnight Deaths


Yep, exact same issue.

[Equine_Harmony]

Oh, God that is just more than a nightmare...

[pocahontas]

Got this info sent to me...sounds like they figured out what the element was.

Attached is the release just issued by Texas A&M University officially
stating the cause of death of 28 horses in College Station as reported
yesterday in a Texas Horse Talk News Bulletin.

Steve

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Horse Mortality Incident Traced to Pesticide

COLLEGE STATION, July 21, 2006 –Testing at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and the Texas Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory has yielded evidence that the toxic principal responsible for the recent deaths of more than two dozen horses at Carousel Acres Equine Center in Brazos County, Texas, was in all likelihood phosphine gas.
Phosphine is a gaseous product released from a highly toxic fumigant pesticide that was reportedly applied by Carousel Acres to the feed bin to kill weevils. Dr. Richard Adams, Dean of the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, indicated necropsies on three of the horses that died at the Texas A&M veterinary clinic all showed the presence of phosphine gas in their stomach.
"Considering that the stable feed bin was reportedly treated with a fumigant pesticide that releases phosphine gas as its toxic principal, and considering that phosphine gas was detected in the horses’ digestive tracts after death, the pesticide certainly appears to be the etiologic agent, the causative factor, responsible for this tragic situation," Adams said.
"So far, necropsy examination of the animals and toxicologic testing of bodily materials have not revealed any apparent toxicants beyond the phosphine," Adams said.
"This appears to have been an unfortunate on-farm accident attributable to the pesticide application. Contrary to some early misleading speculation, there is no indication that the feed product itself was defective when it was delivered to the farm."

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For more information contact:
Jill Burke, Office of Public Relations
College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University
(979) 845-9102