Apr 28 2013
HENDRA & BAT VIRUSES
For thousands of years people have anecdotally had cause for concern that bats carry diseases or sickness. A bite from a bat or a rat might mean death or illness. With the advent of medicine, veterinary science over the last 100 or so years we have teased apart myth information from what is mostly going on. What professionals in the medical and veterinary fields do not want the public to know is that experiments are still going on into the unknown.
Hendra virus has recently come to the attention of people where the transfer of the virus has occurred, they think so far, from bat to horse to people, bat to people possibly bat to dog to people, bat to other species and if it has led to the death of a possum out in the bush no one yet knows that’s been going on for thousands of years.
Vaccination is about the only way to deal with viral infections other than screen, cull and quarantine hoping to restrict spread of the virus like small pox dying out. Development of a vaccine is expensive and across a small animal population such as horses recovery of developmental costs is expensive per horse. The horse owner is expected to foot the bill for a vaccine program (s)he had no consultation about. People love their horses and are assumed to have bottomless pockets to keep them to the standards non horse owners expect. The bat lovers in the environmental movement of our governments made the call the horse owners pay the cost, not relocation of fig trees where bats proliferate and defecate to the point of enhancing contract with people and their domestic animals.
Across this Nation and yes, across the globe, people by the thousands have voiced their dismay and disgust at the harsh, draconian and unconscionable sentence handed down by His Honour William John Smith of Queensland’s Maryborough Court on the 3rd of November 2010.
100% of Mainland Wild Dogs in Australia are considered infected with Echinococcus, an extreme and not uncommonly deadly disease for humans, spread by an ever growing explosive number of hybrid wild dogs across the entire continent of Australia. 
Premier Anna Bligh and Minister Kate Jones of Queensland Government fame, have the one last bastion of Australian territory other than Tasmania, possibly free from this ugly and life threatening offensive insidious disease, of which the human contraction risk grows equally and exponentially, with the immense increase in the mainland wild dog population explosion.
This disease(Hydatid Granulosus), is a real and most serious potential pandemic for the Australian mainland public and tourists who visit our shores alike, yet every politician hides from even a mention of this health risk, let alone a long term death sentence for your children, and like Minister Kate Jones, their best science, clearly tells them, the big “H” (Hydatid), is a nationally most serious, public health issue.
Remember the people’s battle against governments for the ownership retention of the Snowy Hydro only a wee short few years ago? 
Well guess what, to save the neck of a Labour Member in the coming Federal election, MP Mike Kelly of the Eden -Monaro electorate, this, sell the farm and screw the populous with a, “luckily”, failed Carbon TAX SCAM Government of Rudd/Gillard fame, has promised to swap millions of tax dollars ear marked for sick kiddies, carer’s facilities and remote education, for votes; by promising to pay the People’s Snowy Hydro Scheme for water to feed a river system, the very scheme has all but destroyed.
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