Deliberate transmission of EI?

Went to see the vet yesterday and stocked up on bute and penicillin. He had just arrived back from an EI conference. He said the plan is for all horses within the red zone to contract EI and for it to stop at the 10km buffer zone. Firstly, cases in Narangba and the Kilkivan Shire are more than 10kms from the nearest declared IPs, so a 10km buffer zone is obviously insufficient, secondly, if that's the plan why not allow us free range within the zone? Would get it over with much more quickly, and everyone (farriers, dentists, trainers, coaches etc) would be able to work again (while their horses are well, anyway) and sell horses within the zone. Then only the road crossings into the green zone would need to be patrolled.
I guess there would be an uproar from people saying the dpi deliberately caused their horses to get it, but isn't that what will happen anyway?

There is also the argument that if our horses contract the disease in summer and have over 40 temps on over 40 days chances of recovery are much slimmer, so sooner would be better than later.

I do think that the vaccinating of TBs and Trotters who are young, fit and healthy is unfair, when we have mares with foals and due to foal and elderly horses and horses with health problems who are much more at risk. I have appealed for vaccines for 'at risk' horses on my property, but at this stage have not heard back. Will we continue to receive batches of vaccines from overseas after the buffer zone and priority horses are done so there is still a chance of receiving it before our horses contract EI, or is that all that we can source?

Deb Harrip
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