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> Thanks. I know that there are some equine diseases around here that > can and sometimes are transmitted to humans via mosquitoes, it is a > concern here in the summer. **** Hi Kathryn -- I'm unaware of any diseases that can be transmitted to people from horses via mosquitos. Could you be thinking of West Nile? This is transmitted to people via mosquitos -- but comes from mosquitos that have bitten infected birds. Horses are subject to infection this way too, but are an end-recipient, like people -- not a transmittor. MA
