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Recently equine flu outbreak spread in Australia and more than 700 horses are infected. This has heavily hit Australia’s horse racing industry and Australian government ban any horse movement until Friday.

This equine flu is very contagious to horses only but not human but it has the same effect as influenza on human. It is suspected that the flu may come from Japan.

(pic: http://www.goatstar.org/transitional-horse-fossils-2/)

Equine flu give horses the symptoms are high fevers, coughing, sneezing and lack of appetite. There are several viruses that can cause equine flu in Australia, which are Equine Herpesvirus, Equine Rhinovirus and Equine Adenovirus. Equine flu can be spread if the horses are not cared properly as the virus can be spread via droplets, nasal discharge and also the infected brushes and rugs.

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