Annoyed

I like a lot of other people read the blogs everyday, and, like everybody else annoyed at the way this has all been handled by the previous government and DPI hope this new government will listen. My annoyances: I dont think the OGTR read what they were signing off on. Quote the emergency permit no., 10306...Efficacy of "Proteqflu Suspension for injection for horses" against the strain causing the current Equine Ifluenza outbreak in Australia has not been established ...end quote. If the horse that introduced us to the virus was vaccinated, which being a shuttle stallion he would have been, but not with strain that is now active out here, Whats the difference his vaccination against this one they are using on our horses. So what makes these horses going into Vic., any better and any less a risk, Proteqflu carries the strains Kentucky/94[H3N8] and Newmarket/2/93[H3N8] what is needed is one that matches the Wisconsin strain,and there has been a vaccine (killed) available on emergency permit standby since the 2nd -3rd week of outbreak this being Intervet (world leading manufacturer of equine vaccines) Prequenza and it carries the genetic twin to the Wisconsin the Ohio/03. Now is this fair or logical Sth.Africa called in all available vaccines. Another quote, the Bulliten mag.,20th November 2007. Pox risks for the birds. quote....Proteqflu, has not been tested on native birds, says Gibbs, visiting fellow and retired professor at the ANU....... there is also evidence, albeit limited, that avipox viruses the group to which canarypox belongs, could infect marsupials. There are safer, alternative vaccines available, he says....end of quote. GMO already people on the blog have had concerns of mares abhorting, I know of 3 diffucult foalings after vaccination in the mares, 3 foals and 1 mare lost. People in drought areas cant afford to keep feeding horses on their place, cant get a permit to move them down the road to good feed, their breeding stallion been in lockdown in Sydney since august 25th at 35$ per day, vaccinated twice cant get him home but TBs can move, he's a quarter horse lost stud season, but who cares, nobody is listening to the basics. When one door closes another opens, the DPI havent shut theirs yet, I shudder to see what is behind the one that opens.

Pam schiller