Outbreak of horse influenza in Australia

[Keren]

Well, the you-know-what has really hit the fan here over the weekend. Our state (NSW) has been quarrantined over the weekend. All horse movements are now illegal - that includes floating and trucking horses as well as riding/walking them off your own property.

This means that all the people at uni who keep their horses in the stables here cannot go home for the holidays (two weeks time) unless the quarrantine has been lifted by then.

One of the girls I know here was supposed to be competing in a national competition in a few weeks time, but the horse is not allowed to leave the property.

Another student bought a horse just a few hours before the quarrantine was announced, and now she cant bring it home.

It also means that if your stock horses are on one property, you cant take them to your other property to muster the cattle there.

All the horse sections at the agricultural shows have been cancelled.

There is speculation that the Melbourne Cup - the horse race that stops the nation - will be cancelled.

Dont know when it will all be over . . .

49 cases diagnosed this morning, but according to some that is a scaled-down version of things.

 

[Bek]

This is going to cripple Australia.

There's supposed to be an Ag show here this weekend, and the horse section has been cancelled. That's 3/4 of the whole show! My family alone has lost around $2000 over last week the weekend, because we couldn't go to work. Hopefully this will end sooner than later, but at this stage there is no end in sight.

 

[Australian Cattleman]

There's 300 hundred horses at Morgan Park at Warwick,they are not allowed to move. Latest number of horses affected is 410. They say the flu came from Japan.
Colin

 

[4-H_Kid07]

That suck alot.