The Horse Trust Launches New Influenza Vaccination Policy

More travelling and visitors for residents, and the admission of rescue cases prompted the new policy.
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The Horse Trust, one of England’s largest equine retirement and rescue charities, has updated its equine influenza vaccination policy to require all residents be inoculated for the disease.

The charity runs a sanctuary for rescued, elderly, and retired working horses, ponies, and donkeys in Speen, Buckinghamshire. Until now, the charity minimized the risk of equine influenza by ensuring that all new admissions were quarantined upon arrival to monitor them for signs of influenza before they were turned out with the other horses, and by vaccinating any horses that were transported to shows or events.

However, after conducting a review into its current policy, the staff and trustees felt there was potentially an increased risk to the residents at the sanctuary due to an increase in the number of outside events attended by resident horses, the admission of rescue cases, and the growing number of visitors to the sanctuary.

In the past, resident horses spent their lives at The Horse Trust without being moved or transported. The Horse Trust’s residents are now becoming more mobile, attending events such as the Bucks County Show, the Buckinghamshire Armed Forces Day, and The London International Horse Show at Olympia

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