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Owner Mike Polder said Rowdy only had one of the two vaccination shots recommended to combat West Nile in horses. Two of his other horses, 4-year-old Spirit and 9-year-old Shercon, were not vaccinated at all and also became seriously ill.
"It was a nightmare," said Ingrid Encinas, Polder's wife, who nursed the horses back to health with massive doses of B vitamins and aspirin. Of her initial impression of the West Nile threat, she says: "Like a lot of things, I thought it was just a big hullabaloo."
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