EI infected horses are dying because they and their owners are being denied

EI infected horses are dying because they and their owners are being deniedaccess to Equine Hospitals!

This was on OzArabs this morning:
Last night I attended an EI meeting at Carina that was organized by the Manly Road Vet Clinic. EI is confirmed at Belmont by the way.

The upshot is this - the DPI reps were very evasive but they are intending that the lockdown will stay until the disease is proved eradicated and for this they will NOT do a widespread vaccination inside the buffer zone. They are only just beginning that buffer vaccination program and expect it to take two weeks for the first round.

When pressed the private vet who has been contracted to the DPI to oversee the Tambourine area is that he felt this will go to EASTER next year.

Wayne's mare Sacha went into labour yesterday morning at 2am and after several hours he managed to get a vet to be told the mare would be unable to deliver .I spoke to a very gutted Wayne at 9 yesterday morning and he was waiting - 7 hours after the mare started labour - for the vet from Anstead vet hospital to come back to perform a ceasar in his paddock because NO vet hospital will take the mare as she is infected.

A totally gutted Peter Toft spoke late at this meeting - he has 501 horses ill - and at the time of the meeting he had 3 horses on drips with 3 vets attending and all 3 should have been in a hospital. Again NO hospital is available to infected horses. This morning on the ABC news is a report that one of those mares had to be put down.

This is blatant cruelty and we the owners are being made to not only watch but participate in the highest form of neglect of our horses.

Pass this message around guys and gals and make a very big noise - anyone of us could be next -

WE MUST HAVE A CONCERTED AND PLANNED APPROACH TO THE VETERINARY CARE OF ALL HORSES AND IN PARTICULAR INFECTED HORSES OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS AND OF THE ERADICATION PLAN. WE MUST HAVE ACCESS TO VETS ONSITE AND TO A HORSE HOSPITAL IN SOUTH EAST QLD.

EI might not kill but lots of other complications do.

We all need to immediately get onto our own vets, politicians, the DPI and demand that they set up a proper system to give proper veterinary care to all horses infected and this must include a 'dirty' hospital. This is the very minimum that should and must be done - the very least!

We can stand the lockdown for the good of all but we WILL NOT STAND FOR BLATANT NEGLECT AND CRUELTY TO OUR HORSES!