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Thursday, 20 September 2007

How Is This Spreading!

I heard comment this week about EI being spread by insects and kangaroos, and seeing comments here I really believe this is happening. This thing is spreading really fast, faster than the DPI can act, but that is not hard. My view is flies will be rapidly spreading this virus now that we are having warmer weather conditions. And can anybody quarantine flies, and put in a stand still on flies....... Also we are still moving cattle, along with the cattle come flies which may well be transmitting this virus. How many times have you got in your car and driven off home with a fly........ Not just kangaroos, any marsupial could be spreading this disease....
Yesterday our shire was in the grey zone and we got a little bit excited... Maybe we can ride a horse, who is in yards on the other side of a no thru road and has been there since 21 August, across the 50 foot of road, to her usual paddock and be able to use her for stock work on adjacent properties.

But today we have been put in the red zone and I have just spent 2 hours applying for a permit which I feel will be a total waste of time. But nobody stopped us from parking next to a truck load of cattle at the local servo! If those cattle had come from an infected area around Rosewood given the length of time we have been told the virus can survive for, and a fly from this truck got in our vehicle and came home with us.... Well, there you have it we could have spread this virus!!!!! OK none of this has been scientifically proven but maybe fly control is something else we should be doing to try and stop the spread until the Government allows us to vacinate! Christine

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