Watch out for the general public

I was horrified to learn that a friend is currently moving her family from a highly infected EI area to an other area in SE Qld. Although they do not own any horses, there is nothing to say that as they leave, the kids could not run over to the fence to say goodbye to the horse that lives next door and then travel 2hrs to their new home, hop out of the car when they arrive and do exactly the same thing greeting the new horse that lives over the back fence at their new place.

The general public are completely unaware of the threat that they can pose to this crisis. Maybe better eduation and understanding is needed by everyone, whether they own horses or not. It seems to me that you only need to worry about it if you own horses, but as you can see, anyone in our community can be a potential threat to this situation. To add to this it is currently school holiday time. Lets hope most people have their thinking caps on!

Sunshine Coast resident.