vet and 5 horses die!!
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Puppy
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How awful......
MissDeMeena
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Oh my god.. how scary for all involved!!!
jewel
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thats awful
jesterfaerie
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Very horrible
RIP
RIP
showjumperanna
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that's awful, it's never right when someone dies, it's even worse when they're so young. but hope will come, we just don't always know it's there.
annunziata
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that is terrible
ISHmad
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How tragic. May they all RIP.
Gorgeous George
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how awful, RIP.
Weezy
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Dreadful and v scary.
Q: How does it get transmitted between horse and human and bat?
Q: How does it get transmitted between horse and human and bat?
Natch
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Wow what a scary virus and how very respected they will be for being prepared to try to deal with it.
My thoughts are with those who knew him and I hope that a cure is found.
My thoughts are with those who knew him and I hope that a cure is found.
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Donkeymad
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So very sad
Faithkat
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My friend in Brisbane told me about this a couple of weeks ago. Very scary as there aren't very many diseases that transfer between animals and humans, Info on the Hendra virus here: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/cps/rde/dpi/hs.xsl/4790_11112_ENA_HTML.htm
No known cure at the moment
No known cure at the moment
Weezy
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Very interesting article forester, thank you, but I still have questions for anyone in the know - HOW does it transfer? OK so if it is in horse saliva, then yes, we have all been smeared with horse saliva and then quite possibly transfered that to our hands and subsequently our mouths, but I don't think this is how it is moving. Have any further studies been done on how the bats are involved as that article is absolutely inconclusive.
Sorry for the questions, but as a person who is an avid follower of all info re: AHS having lived with it, any equine diseases such as this have me on alert.
Sorry for the questions, but as a person who is an avid follower of all info re: AHS having lived with it, any equine diseases such as this have me on alert.
tikino
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that is realy sad me vet toldme about htis case as the vet that died was a very close friend of his so sad r.i.p ben
Olliedog
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It's generally thought that it can transfer from the bats via urine/faeces/blood etc.
It was on the news here the other night that some of the owners of the horses that died have lodged complaints about potential breaches of hygiene standards at the clinic.
It's a tragic situation for all concerned
It was on the news here the other night that some of the owners of the horses that died have lodged complaints about potential breaches of hygiene standards at the clinic.
It's a tragic situation for all concerned
Weezy
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Thanks S_O, so I presume eating hay off the floor that has had bat wee on it is enough....shocking disease
Serenity087
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I won't be playing with any bats I find next year then!
It's scary to think just how many fatal diseases we can't control or cure, but just aren't as widespread as the well known ones!
Hope this outbreak clears up quickly before anymore deaths though
It's scary to think just how many fatal diseases we can't control or cure, but just aren't as widespread as the well known ones!
Hope this outbreak clears up quickly before anymore deaths though
Tharg
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Virus isolations from the reproductive tract and urine of wild bats indicated that transmission to horses may have occurred via exposure to bat urine or birthing fluids.[8].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henipavirus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henipavirus