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Wednesday, 2 April 2008

comment on $6bn industry at risk amid race to prevent horse f...

"Last year's outbreak, which resulted in 488 confirmed cases and 1646 suspected cases of horse flu on 100 properties, is thought to have been spread by racing stallions brought in from Japan."

Where did The Age get these numbers? WILDLY inaccurate - numbers were hugely higher than "488 confirmed cases" or EI!!!!
KM

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey dont be too hard on the poor thing.
probably only counting the TB's that got it.

surely anyone reading the papers could be forgiven for thinking the only equines affected were those belonging to the racing industry?

3 April 2008 at 3:33 pm  
Blogger jenny22 said...

give him a hug.

probably one of the vast majority who think the only suffers was the TAB and the racing industry.

3 April 2008 at 3:46 pm  

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