Equine flu over: WA lifts restrictions on horse movements

Requirements to bring horses into Western Australia have returned to normal.
Last week Australia was declared provisionally free of Equine Influenza.
Bradley McCormick from the Department of Agriculture and Food says requirements to bring horses into Australia are now the same as those prior to the Equine Influenza outbreak in August last year.

But Mr McCormick says horses being imported into WA will still need to meet a range of health conditions and be accompanied by an interstate health certificate.
"In terms of Western Australia we've been lucky that we haven't had the disease here but we've also worked hard to ensure on a risk management approach that we maintained a very low risk of importing the disease," he said.