Since the news media love to leave us hanging with the bad news about the Trexlers breaking the Georgia equine infectious anemia quarantine on their horses and bringing those horses to S.C., I decided to turn into an investigative reporter (not much of one) and find out for myself: do these horses have equine infectious anemia or not?
I had to go to the Clemson's Sandhills Station today to pick up Buddy's Coggins test (negative, always expected and always a relief to get it in my hands) and I asked there about the Trexler horses, since that's where their Coggins tests would have gone, too. The woman at Sandhills told me which vet to call, and I did. That receptionist there told me that all the Trexler horses were negative, too.
So. Good news for everybody. Guess that's why they didn't report it.
By the way, two of the Trexler's have been extradited to Georgia to face charges there.
The story is now national, with coverage by USA Today that includes tidbits such as that the guy at the Department of Agriculture who hired Trexler is no longer there because he took $10,000 to protect a cock-fighting ring.
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