$100 Hack Could Determine VICTORIA'S $1 Billion Spring Racing Carnival
This goes to show how much the Reacreational Industry counts compared to the Racing Industry - who do they think will spread EI? The $100 Hack in a Dusty Paddock????
Every Horse Poses Threat
PUBLISHED IN:Herald Sun
WRITTEN BY: Kelly Ryan
October 01, 2007 12:00am
VICTORIA'S $1 billion Spring Racing Carnival hangs in the balance and a $100 hack in a dusty paddock on Melbourne's outskirts could determine if it goes ahead.
Thousands of racing thoroughbreds will have been inoculated against influenza by midweek in a costly response to the threat.
However vaccine flown in from France will not be enough for tens of thousands of other horses and ponies scattered across the state.
Racing Victoria Limited's chief veterinary surgeon John McCaffrey could not predict the consequences of just one horse being diagnosed with equine flu in Victoria in the lead-up to the start of spring racing.
"(Diagnosis) in any horse in Victoria, that will certainly change things significantly," Dr McCaffrey said.
"The response will govern what would happen from there on in."
Interstate horses remain banned from the carnival amid fears of spreading the virus that has crippled the racing industries in New South Wales and Queensland.
Premier John Brumby said it was highly unlikely Victoria would lift its interstate ban.
"This is all about minimising risk to the biggest racing carnival in Australia and one of the biggest in the world," Mr Brumby said.
RVL yesterday began distributing 1500 phials of vaccine to vets to administer to metropolitan-based horses.
Vaccination of horses from Flemington and Caulfield were to begin immediately.
Another 2600 phials due today will be handed out tomorrow to be administered.
Dr McCaffrey said it was inappropriate in Victoria to allow the entry of any horse that posed a risk.
But flu in a local horse would trigger its own problems and could deliver a hit to the carnival.
"It's a little bit hard to predict unless you knew what the circumstances were, Dr McCaffrey said.
"It becomes a hypothetical."
The State Government is spending about $250,000 a day on border security and vaccine injections are said to cost about $100 each.
Horses vaccinated this week will receive intramuscular boosters of the clear fluid about a fortnight after their original shot.
Every Horse Poses Threat
PUBLISHED IN:Herald Sun
WRITTEN BY: Kelly Ryan
October 01, 2007 12:00am
VICTORIA'S $1 billion Spring Racing Carnival hangs in the balance and a $100 hack in a dusty paddock on Melbourne's outskirts could determine if it goes ahead.
Thousands of racing thoroughbreds will have been inoculated against influenza by midweek in a costly response to the threat.
However vaccine flown in from France will not be enough for tens of thousands of other horses and ponies scattered across the state.
Racing Victoria Limited's chief veterinary surgeon John McCaffrey could not predict the consequences of just one horse being diagnosed with equine flu in Victoria in the lead-up to the start of spring racing.
"(Diagnosis) in any horse in Victoria, that will certainly change things significantly," Dr McCaffrey said.
"The response will govern what would happen from there on in."
Interstate horses remain banned from the carnival amid fears of spreading the virus that has crippled the racing industries in New South Wales and Queensland.
Premier John Brumby said it was highly unlikely Victoria would lift its interstate ban.
"This is all about minimising risk to the biggest racing carnival in Australia and one of the biggest in the world," Mr Brumby said.
RVL yesterday began distributing 1500 phials of vaccine to vets to administer to metropolitan-based horses.
Vaccination of horses from Flemington and Caulfield were to begin immediately.
Another 2600 phials due today will be handed out tomorrow to be administered.
Dr McCaffrey said it was inappropriate in Victoria to allow the entry of any horse that posed a risk.
But flu in a local horse would trigger its own problems and could deliver a hit to the carnival.
"It's a little bit hard to predict unless you knew what the circumstances were, Dr McCaffrey said.
"It becomes a hypothetical."
The State Government is spending about $250,000 a day on border security and vaccine injections are said to cost about $100 each.
Horses vaccinated this week will receive intramuscular boosters of the clear fluid about a fortnight after their original shot.
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