Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Horse sense

As we are still in the grip of equine flu in Australia it's not that much of a surprise that we there are signs on national roads warning that there be "No Horse Movements". Of course, this could be taken a couple of ways - one which is probably not exactly as the officials want - but it does highlight a problem with the flu and bodily functions. Once you have horses confined to a single space, and no products that touch them able to be moved into the wider community least it be infectious, what do you do with all the manure? This is apparently one of the (small) logistical problems they had to contend with with the lock-down of stables at Centennial Park (scene of a sizeable EI outbreak). And late last week, when a truck carrying manure crashed in outer-suburban Sydney, there was a major clean-up of property and people in the area to make sure any risk of infection spreading was contained.
Additional Note: One of the race courses here is called Flemington. In a television comedy program (The Chaser's War on Everything) they had images of the new Phlemington!

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