28/10/2026
A fair dress up and rigmarole is involved in disease investigations…even for our local wildlife! Michael had to don this attractive attire of PPE in order to test some local birds that had been found dead & dying with weird symptoms to rule out Avian Influenza as one of the possible causes! 🦠 The government and health authorities depend and need private veterinarians to detect, investigate and test for many diseases and outbreaks (like AI or Lyssa virus in flying foxes) that can have serious human health concerns…..yet veterinarians have to do this at our own cost, risk, and expense! We do not receive any financial compensation from government or health departments to do this critical work! 🧐 So if you want or need your veterinarian to help investigate, prevent and treat disease outbreaks please understand we certainly want to help, but we need to protect ourselves & our staff as well as the local wildlife and humans in our community!! And for that we need a viable, sustainable veterinary profession! Vets rock!! 🤘
Australian Veterinary Assoc. Vet Practice Magazine
