Tasmanian Update 5 pm Saturday
Folks
The key task tomorrow (Sunday) is rechecking the suspect horses and we'll have vets taking a close look at the so-called "hot traces" - the horses that have been in close contact with those suspect horses. If any of those hot traces show any signs of sickness, the vets will take blood samples and nasal swabs and send them off to the Mt Pleasant and Geelong labs for testing.
It's possible we may get new reports of sick horses overnight. We have been asking horse owners to ring us if they see the slightest sign, and that's what they are doing. So we are getting reports, including those that are probably nothing more than a mild cold - something that wouldn't be an issue if we didn't have a horse flu alert in place! It's great that horse owners are doing that because we don't want to miss a horse that might turn out to be EI.
I am off tomorrow, but have asked a colleague to email you if anything significant happens.
Cheers
Barry Calderbank
CommunicationsBiosecurity and Product IntegrityDPIW
New Town
ph 6233 6300 or 0407 858 293
The key task tomorrow (Sunday) is rechecking the suspect horses and we'll have vets taking a close look at the so-called "hot traces" - the horses that have been in close contact with those suspect horses. If any of those hot traces show any signs of sickness, the vets will take blood samples and nasal swabs and send them off to the Mt Pleasant and Geelong labs for testing.
It's possible we may get new reports of sick horses overnight. We have been asking horse owners to ring us if they see the slightest sign, and that's what they are doing. So we are getting reports, including those that are probably nothing more than a mild cold - something that wouldn't be an issue if we didn't have a horse flu alert in place! It's great that horse owners are doing that because we don't want to miss a horse that might turn out to be EI.
I am off tomorrow, but have asked a colleague to email you if anything significant happens.
Cheers
Barry Calderbank
CommunicationsBiosecurity and Product IntegrityDPIW
New Town
ph 6233 6300 or 0407 858 293
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