Family demands answers over horse flu vaccination death

A Wombarra family says it is still seeking answers from the Department of Primary Industries over the death of a horse on its property, on the New South Wales south coast, after it received the horse flu vaccine.
John and Sue Watson says the first round of the vaccination of their horses four weeks ago resulted in the death of their pet pony, Will.
The department then turned up to their property yesterday escorted by police to administer booster shots, only to be locked out.
Sue Watson says they are seeking answers from the department about its procedures.
"We have 14 agistors on our property and not one of the agistors was asked to back us up, every single one of them just came and said, 'we don't want our horse to suffer the same death as your pony, we saw what happened, we want answers before we let them come on again'," she said.