Horses. How Many People Have Heard About The Horse Flu In Australia?
Horses. Just Wondering If We Have Made The News Overseas. It Is A Big Deal Here And Has Pretty Much Stopped The Horse Industry Here Although It Seems
Horses : How Many People Have Heard About The Horse Flu In Australia
Just wondering if we have made the news overseas. It is a big deal here and has pretty much stopped the horse industry here although it seems to be easing up a bit we still a ways to go before we are clear. ~~~ cai ~~~
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It's public knowledge in some circles here in the States- I have known about it for months, ever since it first started. Considering that it crippled and then shut down your horseracing and showing industries, one would have thought that your government would have gotten the message and required vaccination programs a long time ago, but that appears not to have been the case, from what I have read and heard on the news reports here. Horses here in the states, and in most of the rest of the world, are routinely vaccinated against the flu- that's why we don't have epidemics of it like this one. I am sorry that your country has been hit so hard, but maybe this will be a blessing in disguise- now that Australia is no longer isolated, vaccination against all horse diseases will become the normal way of things in the future, and there will never again be another repeat of this. The real fault in this situation lies with the government which became really complacent and chose to believe that an epidemic would never happen in Australia, instead of recognizing that not only could it happen, it did. As a result, hundreds of thousands of horses have been sickened, and many have died from complications of the disease, which is tragic by itself. Lost revenues from the shutdown and quarantines of the racing and showing industries are in the MILLIONS, and I know that you and your fellow countrymen are going to feel the effects of this for many years to come in the form of higher taxes. This is just a tragic, heartbreaking situation for many people- one that could have and should have been prevented entirely.
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Answer 1i've not heard of it..
Answer 2Yeah it was in the news sometime ago here in NZ
Answer 3I have read about it in the Equine News. I am sorry you have it there. I live in Montana, USA. We have had West Nile, but not too bad. I don't know of equine 'flu here.
Answer 4Not many people outside of the horse world have heard about it, and still with people in the business, not that many have heard about it either. Not that many even realize the impact of the flu on the horse population. I'm not sure how I heard about it (it MAY have made the news when I was home a couple weeks back). But there isn't much we can do about it if we don't know about it, I suggest posting about it, or add details telling others about it.
Answer 5I'm also from Australia but a UK friend of mine heard about it on their news months ago. Of course it was in relation to the Melbourne Cup Carnival *rolls eyes*. According to the media, EI has only affected the racing fraternity. Never mind the thousands of pleasure horse breeders/trainers etc and the associated industry that have been affected. I just can't wait until the shows start up again - when ever that will be.
Answer 6How could we not of heard of it here in NZ. We were quite worried back for some time that it might jump the ditch but as you say it seems to be clearing up...
Answer 7Delta Blues (last year's Melbourne Cup winner) and runner up Pop Rock were supposed to return to Australia for another shot at the Cup, but were withdrawn when their owners found out about the Australian Horse Flu, so news of it did reach Japan.
Answer 8Yeah, I'm in the US and I've heard of it. Partly because I work in a mainly equine veterinary office, so of course a lot of small talk is horse issues...and partly because one of the yahoogroups lists I'm on has a member from Oz that has kept us up to date with what she's been dealing with as a result of the influenza issue.
Answer 9millions of people around australia and they were also sad about no horse racing for 4 months.
Answer 10I'm in the . and hadn't really heard about it until now, haven't been reading much. Good Luck!!!!
Answer 11It's public knowledge in some circles here in the States- I have known about it for months, ever since it first started. Considering that it crippled and then shut down your horseracing and showing industries, one would have thought that your government would have gotten the message and required vaccination programs a long time ago, but that appears not to have been the case, from what I have read and heard on the news reports here. Horses here in the states, and in most of the rest of the world, are routinely vaccinated against the flu- that's why we don't have epidemics of it like this one. I am sorry that your country has been hit so hard, but maybe this will be a blessing in disguise- now that Australia is no longer isolated, vaccination against all horse diseases will become the normal way of things in the future, and there will never again be another repeat of this. The real fault in this situation lies with the government which became really complacent and chose to believe that an epidemic would never happen in Australia, instead of recognizing that not only could it happen, it did. As a result, hundreds of thousands of horses have been sickened, and many have died from complications of the disease, which is tragic by itself. Lost revenues from the shutdown and quarantines of the racing and showing industries are in the MILLIONS, and I know that you and your fellow countrymen are going to feel the effects of this for many years to come in the form of higher taxes. This is just a tragic, heartbreaking situation for many people- one that could have and should have been prevented entirely.
Answer 12I heard it in one of my magazines. That's too bad, I'm really sorry.
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