Containment not working says Murrihy

Containment not working says Murrihy
Clinton Payne
Saturday, 6 October 2007

Racing NSW Chief Steward Ray Murrihy told Max Presnell’s Racing To The Max program on 2SM this morning that the latest outbreak of Equine Influenza (EI) at Rosehill is more proof the Department of Primary Industry’s (DPI) policy of containment and eradication of the disease is clearly not working.

“Wellington went down yesterday, we’ve got reports about Forbes, Dubbo went during the week, some of our biggest spelling properties went over during the week and these reports about it being contained are just wrong,” Murrihy said.

“There’s an AUSVET plan and that plan is to have a buffer zone to eradicate it by surrounding the EI outbreak which confines it and the theory is it burns out but I’m not so taken by that theory.”

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