Comment on Farmers improve biosecurity since horse flu scare:

are u serious?
biosecure all u like. if theres another outbreak unless the nearest horse is over 10 k away just the wind is going to do the job for goodness sake.
only the implementation of vaccination buffers stopped this nighmare
although i suppose we can argue that lax biosecurity let it out of eastern creek there is still the irrufutable fact that the wind still infected every agistment horse around eastern creek despite lockdown and the sudden inplementation of biosecurity
i pray the necessary amount of vaccine is already on hand for buffer zone administration of hoof and mouth vaccine if there is a case.
lockdown alone is just as useless on its own without vaccination buffers for fmd too.
its even stated in the draft protocol for fmd although was in the draft for ei as well n that was not only ignored this time round. how many remember the dpi telling us for days that vaccination was not the way the stop ei.
lockdown would do it.
they did so many about faces doubt they knew which way was north any more before
hallelujah
they found the light and buffer zones were the way to go.

well after the racing industry was protected. new paragraph in the draft report we must have missed noticing.
S.