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02 September 2016

Irish Field Contributor on 02 Sep 2016

HANDS ON: Biosecurity - the buzz word

Peadar Ó Scanaill explains that if each and every one of us did our bit to avoid carrying a disease onto a new holding, then none of our horses would pick one up to take home

Irish Field Contributor

2 September 2016

We should admire shows that install passport and health checks at the entry gates - that's the organisers doing their bit to prevent disease spread (Photo: Jon Stroud/FEI)

Clean hands station at Rio 2016 - we ourselves can become vectors for disease spread (Photo: Susan Finnerty)

Up-to-date vaccinations can help reduce or restrict the spread of disease

SUMMER is over and the show season is drawing to a close. As we look back at the busy months gone by, there’s one buzzword that came up in conversation again and again throughout the year, and that word is biosecurity.

Control of disease spread would have been the words used in the past but now it is much cooler to use the buzzword, biosecurity. Biosecurity basically encompasses all activities involved in control and prevention of the spread of disease from one animal to another.