QLD Vaccination areas

[Judi Ruffo]

There will be four major vaccination buffer areas surrounding EI infected areas in Brisbane Western Suburbs, Tamborine, Warwick and Minden/Rosewood. Maps showing the exact location of the buffer areas will be put up on the DPI&F website shortly. ( from DPI)

[Greenacres]

Hi Judy, I mentioned in a different thread that I've been told Brian Sheehan is vaccinating horses in The Gap area next week. Apparently there are around 50 horses to be done.

[Judi Ruffo]

yep i suppose the dpi say one thing and do another asuming the story is infact true

[Judi Ruffo]

oops and i suppose the gap is bris western subs

[Zephyr]

Yeah, but really close to Kenmore Hills, where there are confirmed properties. Not sure if thats outside the 50km radius or not? It'd be close

[ann]

Yeah, but really close to Kenmore Hills, where there are confirmed properties. Not sure if thats outside the 50km radius or not? It'd be closeMore like 5. I've ridden it.

[Zephyr]

Thats what I thought :)

They told me yesterday they were starting at Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba and Currumbin areas. I've heard today from non-DPI people The Gap and Moggill, but I haven't been able to confirm. They said on the news tonight they were starting with the Gold Coast, and that would be the racehorses, I'd imagine. Its just a shame there's not enough vaccine to do everyone

[Judi Ruffo]

mmm Sunshione Coast, i spoke with my vet as usual our daily catch up, he is indicating that he may get vacine but i imagine that is for Corbould park, certainly not the recreational horses, plus i still ask the question about the brumbies???

[Phoebe]

Apparently the plan changed late yesterday afternoon and the buffer zones are being reassessed yet again... The Gap/Ferny Hills buffer zone is no longer a goer.

[Liz O]

It is disgraceful. I got a letter yesterday stating that my horses in Anstead were to be vaccinated and I should contact my veterinarian. My vet confirmed this morning that the plan changed last night and that no horses within the red zone, other than thoroughbreds, would be vaccinated. Don't get me started on the cost of sending out letters that are misleading and build up false hopes. And before we all start getting annoyed about the preferential treatment of thorougbreds (who delivered this disaster to our shores), I would like to hear what the EFA has done to champion the cause for performance horse vaccination. Horses registered with the EFA could be traced in the same way TB's can, so that argument isn't valid. I'm not suggesting that the EFA has done nothing, but it would be nice to be informed of their lobbying efforts.

[Madeline]

I second that Liz - they are our voice, maybe it is the EFA we should be lobbying

[naomiofarrell]

I was on the phone to Canberra yesterday( the Minister for Agricultures office- go to the top for info) long and short- phone Ron Glanville, chief vet for the DPI Qld. they are the ones responsible for deciding where the vacinations go. Obviously the race horses first, then they'll get to the rest of us eventually and we'll have to pay for it. the EFA should be screaming not discussing nicely,we have done everything we can to contain the disease and now we are being hung out to dry,eventually.We do really need to start yelling.

[Madeline]

Has anyone contacted the EFA or DQ to see what they are doing as our voice in all of this?

[Zephyr]

I understand its distressing to have hopes built up, then removed, and I also agree we should be screamng blue murder about the racehorses getting priority, but I totally understand the reasoning behind their vaccination buffer. As I explained in another thread, there is no point wasting vaccines in areas that will likely get hit by the virus before they have a chance to get the second vaccine and therefore immunity into the horses. The virus is spreading at a rapid rate, and for this buffer zone to work they need to get the immunity in before the virus hits, hence the reasoning behind going 50 to 100km away from infected zones.

[jodles]

Was told today by vet clinic that the corbould Pk racehorses will take priorty in vaccinations and more will come next week.

[naomiofarrell]

Hey Zephyr,just to query as I did the ministers office yesterday, what happens if we do an excellent job of NOT getting EI, it goes over and around us, when will we ever get vacinated? I don't want to wait to catch the disease,and then have to wait for the horses to recover, I would rather take my chances, with the vacine,yes I can understand the buffer zone, but I do object to the atitude you're going to get,get over it! I also don't think we should have to pay for it. Are you cotent with their atitude?

[Judi Ruffo]

yep my vet as quoted " The entire Sunshine Coast horse population WILL NOT be vaccinateed"

[Carole Lok]

So is anyone else wondering wether it is not if but when we will get it? ( I mean us in the RED zone) And if so then why can't we move around....maybe we will get it over with quicker! Seems as if the performance people have stopped still and they are still expected to sit still, shut up and get on with whatever comes our way!!! Everyone seems to be getting more and more frustrated, it is certainly not getting any easier for us.

[Gypsie]

ok, as on another thread, at the public meeting we had last night with our vets (samford) and the DPI, we will NOT have to pay for the vaccine or associated costs in the buffer zones.

But as you have already probably noticed, the DPI STILL havent worked out who and where the zones are going to be. I am off to email EFA to see if I can get an answer from them. Have already bothered the vets, and the local MP and that other fella MP Peter McGauran who reckons race horses should have priority.

[Judi Ruffo]

yep i am sure it is when and have been saying so for some time, i just want it later ather than sooner so my babies are a bit stronger...

[naomiofarrell]

The buffer zone will be OUTSIDE the RED zone so none of us will be vacccinated, it will be the miniscul number of horses OUTSIDE the south east corner that will be vaccinated,except for those precious racehorses.That is by far the least expensive way for the government to do it, as the majority of the horses are within the red zone and will not be vacinated.let me think! Oh yes, I did pay Taxes to be a part of this epidemic, obviously not as much as the Racehorse owners,.

[Judi Ruffo]

Did you see my comments on the inconsistancy of the financial help racehorses $55 other $20, apparranetly ours are cheaper to feed too,i am not allowed to walk my 20 stabled horses accross a minor to get grass but TB's can walk to the track.....aaarrrgggg,also as a TB breeeder it would seem that i can get a permit to send my mare to stud...yep just got emailed one and then get $50 cause she is "stuck" at stud??? might drag the old 22 year old back into service....

[Susan]

I think the DPI is also aware of the logistics (not just $) of vaccinating a huge number of horses- hence buffer zones that are perhaps less equine populous than some centres. Where has it been said that it's racehorses and buffer zones? I saw Melbourne Cup runners but does that include race horses in the SEQ red zone too?

[Zephyr]

Not sure, Naomi. I think if you're lucky enough for EI to pass you by, and the buffer zone is vaccinated out, then there may be vaccine available that you could buy and be reimbursed for as it relates to EI? Don't know. To be honest, I think you'd have to be bloody lucky to avoid the virus before the buffer zone is vaccinated out.

I don't think the attitude of 'sit tight and wait' means 'we don't really care about you', I think they're just trying to do the best they can in a natural disaster situation. There are so many of us caught up in this at the moment, either desperately hoping our horses arn't going to get sick as the virus spreads closer and closer, or miserably watching our horses cough and sneeze, and being able to do very little for them. I've been in the former, I'm now in the latter. It could be worse, though. I could be stuck at Moonbi or Morgan Park with my horses not at home, wondering when the hell they're going to let me out of here. Sadly, there isn't any good way of controlling the disease within the hot spot areas, and what they have to do now is find some way of it burning itself out in hot spots, which means all naive horses becoming infected and limiting the spread beyond infected areas ie. buffer zones and movement restrictions.

I'm sorry not everyone can get the vaccine. There just isn't enough vaccine in the world to vaccinate all the horses in Australia, or even Qld and NSW. They just have to do the best they can with what vaccine they get, and we need to remember that this disaster is bigger than us.

[Kim]

We also received our letter in the mail today, although it was reported to the dpi at the beginning of this week that we had EI in our street. Those letters must have been prepared some time ago.

[naomiofarrell]

When I spoke to Canberra he said, they would be getting 150,000 vaccinations,within the next 3 weeks,then continuing to get more as it becomes availble,how many horses are there? I realise there is a bigger picture, but by nature, being a fighter,(Holder of the Dressage Committee Rottweiler award) I am not going to roll over and give up. I will be following avenues to get a vaccine for everyone not just racehorses.We all need to keep phoning and emailing and annoying the people making decisions, so they know what we think.

[Madeline]

Good on you Naomi
Have the EFA been lobbying - they are our voice, our representatives, do you know what they are doing. I get lots of forwarded emails from them but no copies of letters lobbying support for the Performance horse industry.

[naomiofarrell]

No Judi I haven't heard ,they seem to be very quiet and have only been passing on the DPI info,perhaps it's time they came out and informed their members exactly what they have been doing. Remembering that if this continues there will be no financial members next year, they will be wiped out financially or still unable to attend non existant competitions at non existant clubs. ETC ETC ETC.

[Madonna]

yep i am sure it is when and have been saying so for some time, i just want it later ather than sooner so my babies are a bit stronger...

What worries me about the attitude that it's "inevitable" that all horses in the red zone will get EI is that people may then get slack with their efforts to control the spread of the disease. We still need to sit tight and do our best to give the DPI a chance to get buffer zones happening before it spreads beyond their control.