Information for event organisers and participants

Various competitions that are planned for the first half of next year are devising their conditions for attendance. It will NOT be necessary to vaccinate horses that are only competing in events in the green zone against other green zone horses. If a competition involves horses crossing zone boundaries vaccination will be required.

Furthermore any horse moving out of a zone of high risk to a zone of lower risk will have to be, at very least, proven immune, tested free and have the property quarantined for 14 days before moving. It will not be as simple as getting your horse vaccinated and turning up to the show. The DPI’s requirements for moving between zones will have to be followed.

An information page for event organisers and participants has been added to the NSW DPI web site. It contains vital information for people planning and attending horse events in NSW including a summary of the rules and restrictions that apply as well as biosecurity and horse health information. See:http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/livestock/horse/influenza/information/info-event-organisers-participants

The requirements for cross zone events have yet to be added when the decision on these movements has been formalised.

Equine influenza daily update - 3 December 2007