![]() The APVMA has written to Ms Mulligan acknowledging her horse had a reaction to the vaccine. I don't know whether it was the amount that he, because he was fine on the first four five." Regulator confirms link between Hendra vaccine, horse's illness We then noticed he was getting nose bleeds and basically his whole system was shutting down so decided to stop the pain. "We called the vet and he was put on IV with a temperature of 41C. "He was standing in a lather of sweat and he had lost everything - there was no weight left on him," Ms Mulligan said. "I didn't realise at the time that his autoimmune system was already partially compromised and by hitting him with the sixth needle made his immune system go completely - is how the vet explained it to me."Īmanda Mulligan's horse, Maestro, was euthanased five weeks after it received a fifth vaccine injection. "He didn't eat anything, he could hardly walk, he was so sick and I thought 'I don't know if this horse is going to make it' and he got over it. "His temperature was nearly 40 degrees, which is incredibly high for a horse, and that lasted four days," Ms Vickery said. ![]() The stallion became ill the day after a fifth dose of the vaccine. He was a very imposing horse because he was so big and he was very talented," Ms Vickery said. "His mother was Empire Rose, who won the Melbourne Cup. "They walked the paddocks checking for weeds that could be toxic to the horse, they looked at the feeds and basically came back to us saying 'there's no toxic plants, there's nothing there'."Ĭloser to Port Macquarie, Sue Vickery said her horse Bart was no longer able to be ridden and almost died after a sixth dose of the Hendra virus vaccine. ![]() Natalie Roach runs an equestrian centre near Wauchope. "Everything they tested for was coming back negative," she said. ![]() Ms Roach said she believed the vaccination was to blame, but Zoetis conducted tests at the property and denied the vaccine was the cause of death. "My son's little pony has had three bouts of extreme laminitis and now he's useless to us." I think at last count it was about 60 odd horses vaccinated here, sadly two are dead," Ms Roach said. "Sadly for us it hasn't been an easy road. Natalie Roach, who runs an equestrian centre near Wauchope, has had horses who had been vaccinated die. Horse owners say Hendra vaccine killed healthy horses "The odd horse can develop a fever for a couple of days but it's not occurring very commonly and it is similar to that we experience when we have a tetanus injection or we vaccinate our kids."īut on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, which is just south of a known Hendra zone, several local horse owners are reporting a cluster of horse deaths and debilitating illnesses which they fear are from multiple doses of the Hendra virus vaccine. "We have only seen minor reactions at the injection site so this is some swelling and some sort of pain," Dr Anthony said. Since it was registered earlier this month, 380,000 doses have been given to 110,000 horses.īrisbane vet Nathan Anthony has vaccinated 5,000 horses at his practice. While the virus was identified in 1994, a vaccine was not available until November 2012. Seven horse owners had to be treated for potential exposure to the bat-borne virus last year. "I think everyone would like to see that change made and everyone would like to see that change made as soon as possible, but we need to allow the regulator to make their assessment and they will give us their answer in due course," Mr L'Estrange said. No system is 100 per cent secure, but the Signal app uses end-to-end encryption and can protect your identity. Text message using the Signal phone app +61 436 369 072.Email ABC Investigations at more sensitive information:.Vaccine manufacturer Zoetis' veterinary operations manager, Richard L'Estrange, said the industry would support changing the interval between vaccinations from six months to 12. "I certainly have sympathy for owners who feel their horses are being over-medicated because I think any vaccination carries the risk of a vaccine reaction and all the more reason to be very certain that we're only giving horses the minimum number of vaccines we need to give them protection against Hendra virus." "At the moment the evidence we have is that after the six-month booster you can maintain levels of protection in horses for at least a further 12 months, possibly even longer," CSIRO's Deborah Middleton said. The CSIRO scientist who developed the Hendra virus vaccine is recommending fewer injections be given to horses to protect against the deadly illness.Ĭurrently boosters have to be given every six months and horse owners have told the ABC they fear their horses are becoming ill and in several cases dying as result of "over-vaccination". Editor's note (October 23, 2015): A video excerpt and still photos have been removed from this story.
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