Horse flu vaccine available for all Qld horses

Equine influenza vaccines are now available for non-racing horses that are banned from moving within south-east Queensland's red zone.
The first of 26,000 vaccines will be administered to non-racing horses on Monday.

Kent Wells from the Queensland Pleasure and Performance Horse Industry says horse owners should apply for the vaccine through their vets or the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) website.

"At least there's light at the end of the tunnel. Previous to that we had no light, we were just stuck in limbo where we couldn't move our horses and had no prospect of moving our horses in the future but at least now we have the opportunity to get some horses vaccinated and the potential to move horses by Christmas,' he said.