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An insider's view of the lockdown at Moonbi during the Australian equine influenza outbreak
Author(s) -
Drury M
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
australian veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1751-0813
pISSN - 0005-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-0813.2011.00774.x
Subject(s) - equine influenza , outbreak , quarantine , veterinary medicine , covid-19 , insider , club , geography , demography , medicine , virology , political science , law , sociology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , anatomy
Participants in the 1‐ and 2‐day Tamworth Dressage Club (TDC) annual dressage championships arrived in Moonbi, New South Wales (NSW) as reports of the equine influenza outbreak surfaced on 25 August 2007. Three horses who had attended a competition in Maitland the weekend before had been showing flu‐like symptoms and the next day the site was declared a suspect premise. On 27 August, infection was confirmed and the site was placed in total quarantine. Although most participants had travelled long distances to compete and did not have provisions for them or their horses, the quarantine was not lifted until 3 October, having a great social and personal impact on all those trapped in Moonbi.