Australia’s Newest Flu Scare Over
Tests on 74 horses have come back negative after a horse had a “weak positive test” for equine infuenza.
- Topics: Article, Drug Testing, Influenza, Thoroughbred Racing
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Tests on 74 horses have come back negative after a horse had a "weak positive test" for equine infuenza at the Eastern Creek Quarantine station near Sydney, Australia. That is the import center where the devastating 2007 equine infuenza outbreak began.
Officials took two sets of extensive tests on all 74 horses before declaring them free of flu.
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Kimberly S. Brown has served as editor and continues to contribute to My Senior Horse, which she founded for Equine Network and Linda Mars. She previously spent 10 years at Equine Network and three years working in equine nutrition. Before that, she worked nearly 30 years at The Blood-Horse, spending her final 15 years on The Horse and TheHorse.com.
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