An alternative treatment to African Horse Sickness
PAID FOR BY ECOVET The 2023 African Horse Sickness season
PAID FOR BY ECOVET
The 2023 African Horse Sickness season left many horse owners, breeders and stable yards searching for an alternative treatment to the dreaded African Horse Sickness disease (AHS)– a highly infectious, fast acting and absolutely devastating disease. The virus, spread by infected insects (biting midges) most commonly affects horses, donkeys, mules and zebras, and is predominantly spread during the cold winter months in South Africa. The infected midges impact the horse on many levels, often causing high cyclic fever, swelling of the face, cardiac disease, and often respiratory issues associated with slow, heavy breathing and coughing.
Dr Niven, given his decades of work with horses and other animals - having had many horses of his own - developed a regime to assist in the treatment of African Horse Sickness (AHS) by combining registered Eco-Vet remedies, namely Eco-Heal, Eco-
Heart and Eco-Lungs to assist the horse’s own immune system in fighting the disease, naturally! The product regime was particularly formulated to strengthen the horses’ own immunity, whilst presenting no known side-effects, an inability to overdose and its dynamic capabilities to work in combination with other chronic medication, as well as alongside other Eco-Vet remedies – thereby offering a holistic treatment approach.
ECO-VET BACKGROUND
Eco-Vet was established in 1997 by Dr Alex Niven, a qualified veterinarian and homoeopath, with one goal in mind, to create affordable yet effective medicine for animals – from household pets to horses, and other agricultural livestock. Throughout Dr Nivens’s career, he has been committed to treating animals with homoeopathic medicine, now known as the Eco-Vet range, which
is registered with the Department of Agriculture. The Eco-Vet range consists of over 30 natural remedies that assists animals with a wide variety of acute to chronic conditions – from persistent scratching and fear, all the way to epilepsy, arthritis, and African Horse Sickness.
At Eco-Vet we continue to take pride in the quality and standards of our products, our mission remains to provide an alternative and affordable range of medicine for animals!
“My boy Blu came down with AHS recently, and it wasn’t looking good. The vet didn’t think he was
– Vicci & Blu
going to make it, so we fought tooth and nail for his life. A couple days in, we came across Eco-Vet, and the Eco-Vet protocol. We got our hands on the products as fast as we could and started dosing him. By day 8 his temperature finally broke. I am so grateful for the yard owner and her team for how they fought for his life when I couldn’t be there, and
for Eco-Vet which clearly made all the difference.”
