BIOSECURITY: Protect your horses against EHV-1 and more
The term “biosecurity” may bring to mind movie images of shadowy government types in white HAZMAT suits tracking down some lethal organism that threatens all of mankind. But though it might sound like something that would only concern those who spend their lives tracking terrorists and ebola, biosecurity actually has very real applications for those of us down home on the farm. No, there have not been any reports of terrorists planning biological weapon attacks on horse farms, but our horses do face a number of threats every day -- as the recent EHV-1 outbreak has demonstrated -- and biosecurity is all about what we can do to protect them. Looking at your horse farm in terms of biosecurity is in some ways similar to a military operation: you must identify the threats against you, identify any weaknesses in your operation that make you vulnerable to those threats, determine strategies to counter the threats, ...