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27-Aug-07, 10:02 PM
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I cant even understand 2 being worth $170 million between them.....imagine how many starving kids you could feed with that? HOLY *****. Still, I guess thats market forces for you.
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27-Aug-07, 10:14 PM
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Dang it. I was meant to have a horse prac at uni tomorrow. Now it's cancelled and we're stuck in the labs. Fun. Thanks Equine flu, you just stuffed my day.  |
27-Aug-07, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by AnteUp Dang it. I was meant to have a horse prac at uni tomorrow. Now it's cancelled and we're stuck in the labs. Fun. Thanks Equine flu, you just stuffed my day. |
haha the horse pracs at gatton are boring anyway. what course ya doing?
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27-Aug-07, 10:31 PM
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Originally Posted by thenothing $500 mil? How on earth can a stallion be worth $500 mil? they said the combined value of two stallions in quarantine was $170 mil, that I can understand.. but $500 mil is crazy.
Especially when you consider Makybe Diva's progeny will be sold for $4-5 mil each.. | Sorry I mean't 500k! I still had the figures about the stud post before where someone was saying they could lose 80 mill in stud figures.
EDIT:// Scratch that, 500 mill was right. This is the news clipping, but it's not for one stallion, a bunch of them together.
Some 40 international stallions have been quarantined in Australia and the New Zealand government has closed its borders to horses from Australia, including dozens of top American, European and Asian stallions worth an estimated $500 million.
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27-Aug-07, 10:42 PM
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Yeah, big difference between one horse being worth $500 mil and 40 horses with a combined worth of $500 mil  |
27-Aug-07, 10:44 PM
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Yeah I just got my ends mixed up. One of the stallys was 500k. My bad |
27-Aug-07, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Helikaon haha the horse pracs at gatton are boring anyway. what course ya doing? | Wildlife Science  |
27-Aug-07, 10:58 PM
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Equine Influenza is similar to Influenza (flu) in humans.
High morbidity but low mortality meaning a high number of horses exposed to the virus will become infected but not many will die. Foals and animals that are already immunocomprimised may die from it, as like in humans with the elderly and young children.
This is the first time that Australia has ever been infected and all horses are naive to this virus. It is easily spread thru fomites ie horse handlers, trainers, buckets, saddles etc
My friends horse has come down with it at Centennial park and one horse has died there showing convulsions before death but the cause was not confirmed as influenza.
We have been studying this within the last week at uni and most of the vets being quoted on tv and in the papers have been giving us lectures. Last Friday one of the vets gave us the inside goss b4 the proverbial hit the fan |
28-Aug-07, 07:43 AM
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Originally Posted by mysnakesau I hope the Birdsville races are still on, I have planned to go there this weekend. | I don't think a lack of horses will stop the Birdsville races, they will just find something else to race
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28-Aug-07, 08:35 AM
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I read that the Birdsville Races are still on as all the horses are up there already??
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28-Aug-07, 01:59 PM
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Horsy, keep a close eye on your little rescue case (cant remember his name) if any of your horses are going to be affected, it will be more serious for him. As mentioned above, its rarely fatal, only to horses with immune deficiences (young foals and aged horses usually) and 99% of horses recover without any side effects. The problem lies more in bringing horses back into work before they are fully recovered, this leads to further problems down the track.
So far I have gotten away with it. I had my girls at the ranch ODE near maitland where about 50 horses caught it, so I was very lucky that my girls are fine (touchwood)
I still cant believe it when I see people with horses in floats, know of a few people that have been reported to the DPI, its idiots like that that think it doesnt affect them that are spreading it! ggrrrrr.
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28-Aug-07, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by Jonny My friends horse has come down with it at Centennial park and one horse has died there showing convulsions before death but the cause was not confirmed as influenza. |  Poor things.. 
How could the quarantine (sp?) not have cleared any chance of this outbreak with all the international stud horses coming in? Bah! Stupid eager humans.
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28-Aug-07, 03:14 PM
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Birdsville horse race has just been canned.
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28-Aug-07, 03:47 PM
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SMH has the NSW Minister for Primary Industries saying that the virus is the H3N8 strain. Which is the one that jumped to dogs in America, then spread from dog to dog. In that outbreak there was apparently a 5-8% mortality rate in dogs.
Exact same virus which is responsible for a lot of dog deaths. I bloody hope they manage to contain it.
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28-Aug-07, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Magpie Birdsville horse race has just been canned. | I also heard this on the radio, although the party will still be on!! haha
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