EIA- do you think it is possible..................

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that DEFRA will take the same decision that their equivalent department did in Australia and shut down all movement of Equines til the country is once again free from the disease??

I'm not here to scaremonger, just been discussing it with friends and was wondering?????
 
I can't see that they will do it with all equines as there is far too much revenue derived from racing.

If it prevents a national outbreak resulting in EIA becoming endemic in this country and saves my horses I'd support a movement ban.
 
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If it prevents a national outbreak resulting in EIA becoming endemic in this country and saves my horses I'd support a movement ban.

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I think we ALL would.......I HOPE we all would anyway
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the revenue from Racing in Australia is absolutely huge, though this did not stop them banning movement. My sister was trapped at a showground for nearly three months before being allowed to take them home from a three day show she was at when the ban came in........overnight and without warning
 
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the revenue from Racing in Australia is absolutely huge, though this did not stop them banning movement. My sister was trapped at a showground for nearly three months before being allowed to take them home from a three day show she was at when the ban came in........overnight and without warning

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Was she at Parkes?

I was over there too - we couldn't even get feed delivered, it had to be dropped down the road and we had to take the car down to pick it up.

Saying all of that, EI spread throughout the whole country anyway. All of ours had it and nobody was allowed to come or go! I was left thinking it might have been quicker just to let it spread in the first place in this instance.
 
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I doubt it, they have stoped exports from the UK yet they are still allowing imports which is the reason we now have IEA!

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That is the most backward thing I have heard in my life!
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Why stop exports and not imports!!
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...how did we get the disease in the country duhhhh!!!!
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Both should be stopped, not one or the other, doesn't take a genius to work that one out, surely common sense would prevail... or if you are the UK authorities... I guess not! xx
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I doubt it, they have stoped exports from the UK yet they are still allowing imports which is the reason we now have IEA!

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Exports were stopped as this reduces the risk of spreding the disease into other countries ...

while the movement of imports into Britain might be a bad idea in terms of it being horses moving in a time of disease outbreak the chances of the imported horses actually bringing EIA in with them is very small...

and like the horses in this case any horse positive for EiA sill be detected once they do through the importantion procedures...

The problem is to do with the quarintine controls once you enter the country and the fact there is no specific quarantine for large animals.
just that the owners are expected to quarintine new stock themselves on their own premises....or at least thats the way it works in Ireland...
and thse rules have something to do with the free trade legislation in the EU....
 
'while the movement of imports into Britain might be a bad idea in terms of it being horses moving in a time of disease outbreak the chances of the imported horses actually bringing EIA in with them is very small...'

That seems like a strange assumption to make, considering that's how it got here!
 
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