Hendra virus alarm: Scone horse put down due to bat-borne disease

Jamieson Murphy
Updated June 13 2019 - 5:26pm, first published 1:00pm
DEADLY DISEASE: It's the first the deadly disease has been discovered west of the Great Dividing Range.
DEADLY DISEASE: It's the first the deadly disease has been discovered west of the Great Dividing Range.

THE New England and Hunter equine communities is being urged to vaccinate their horses, after a mare was put down on a property near Scone on Wednesday night.

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Jamieson Murphy

Jamieson Murphy

News director

Newcastle Herald news director. Interested in any and all yarns. Whisper g'day mate to me at jamieson.murphy@austcommunitymedia.com.au

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