DPI creates buffer zone to restrict latest horse flu outbreak

The New South Wales Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has imposed a restriction zone around the region's latest equine flu outbreak.

DPI deputy chief veterinary officer Ian Roth says the flu has been found on a property four kilometres south of Walcha.

He says the latest outbreak was probably spread because of human, not horse, contact because of its distance from the nearest infected property.
Mr Roth says an investigation is under way while the DPI lays plans to vaccinate horses in a buffer zone around it to stop the virus spreading.