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Influenza virus was first isolated from horses in Czechoslovakia in 1956 providing the prototype strain: A/eq/Prague/56 (H7N7). It is still used in some vaccines. Since chilling weather was followed by many cases of influenza (always!) perhaps some such horses are silent carriers.