During my life of training and racing horses, I must honestly write that I and my animals  have suffered more at the hands of pathogens than anything else in my memory. My horses have thankfully been spared from both catastrophic breakdowns and the more common tissue failures seen on the track whether by luck or skill, but they have not been so lucky with infections. My very first taste of what microbes could do to my horses came as a boy back in the 1960s. A little filly came down with sleeping sickness, Equine Encephalomyelitis, a mosquito-borne alphavirus infection, not that common in my area of Northwest Missouri but, I guess, common enough to do its dirty work. I still recall her to this day in the front lot of the barn.

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