How many thousands of dollars I have had to pay out over the years for > this Coggins Testing on my horses just to travel, I have lost count. > > I remember being at the Cornell Veterinary Conference in 1971 when Dr. > Leroy Coggins introduced his antigen test. The biggest excitement after > the lecture was the possibility of having legislation passed where only a > licensed veterinarian could bleed the horse. This would surely get the > veterinarian back on the farm. I departed this Conference convinced of the > enormous attributes to testing Leroy Coggins' test to search out and > destroy this "Deadly Virus". What a plus for the Vet without a practice. > > Some years later in the 1970s, after seeing numerous horses put down, > that, tested positive to this antigen test, I began to question to my > friend, veterinarian and huntsman, Dr. Peter Bausum, how it seemed all the > horses observed being put down were all fat slick and in very good health. > He had been doing research for Pitman Moore and among these horses were > their positive research horses. Pete said it was only transferable in the > acute stage and that they had taken 60cc of blood from positive horses and > injected it into negative horses without any of the injected horses > showing positive over the course of the experiment. I thought when Pitman > Moore released the results of their experiments the test would be > abolished. Pitman Moore, who manufactured the Antigens used in testing for > Coggins testing, never disclosed to the public their findings. Pete told > me, it was a "crock of s---!" > > For years this haunted me, especially when I observed a crying young girl > hugging and kissing good bye, her pretty and healthy pony as he was put > down for a positive reading on his coggins test. > > Years later in the the Spring of 2000, I made contact with Dr. Stewart > McConnell formally of Texas A&M now retired. He has been doing research on > EIA longer than anyone I'm aware of. I had a meeting at my ranch in > Oklahoma. Dr. McConnell made the following points shooting down the > Antigen testing for EIA. > > Antigens are not contagous. Why base a test solely on their presence? > > It is a lentivirius of which all mammals have. The horse is the only one > being discriminated against. Being tested and put down for it. > > It is not a Deadly Virus, it has mutated itself over the years as not to > harm it's host. > > It is not a retrovirius - No returning flair ups as previously thought. > > A horse pastured with positive reading horses is less likely, if ever, to > get a future positive reading than one pastured with negative horses. > > The occult horse- Negative reader shedding virus. > > We helped with Dr. McConnell's instruction, to set up the local testing > lab at Ardmore, Okla., to do sideroleucocyte testing on horses known to > have tested positive to Leroy Coggins' test. From different parts of the > country came blood pulled from these individuals. All horses tested show > 00 for any virus. This was to look for 2 parts per 10,000. NOTHING!! ZIP > on any virus being present in the horse. > > Arguing this with some of the states with horses in quarantine, this > finding failed to sway them from their path. Arkansas killed one lady's > horse after she could spend no more on the fight to keep her quarantined, > sideroleucocyte tested negative, healthy horse alive. > > There is no reason why a positive reading coggins tested,but, > sideroleucocyte tested negative horse should not be allowed to reenter the > horse population. > > > With this knowledge, will the States and the Veterinarian profession drop > this scare tactic, extorting money from the horseman, through fining mills > and fees. Should they continue to mislead the public for their gain than > they should be questioned for Civil Fraud. > > If sideroleucocyte testing were required for any viruses present, at least > we would be getting our money's worth carrying around that paper. > > Check out Marty Jo Hayes' EIA care and concern group. She stated,"The > Coggins test almost killed my horse. > The disease didn't even make him sick!" After her court case in Ohio where > Dr. McConnell testified, shooting holes all through the myths of EIA and > the Coggins test, the judge exclaimed, "Why are we even doing this test?" > > I have to go out and check on my pastures now. I will return later to > write more about this, if I am allowed do so with the consent of the "List > God". > >
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