Near a small town in northern New South Wales horse blood is being harvested to aid researchers and diagnostics.
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An hour out of Tamworth near a little town called Manilla, up to 350 litres of blood is taken from between 80 and 90 horses each week. It is packaged and goes towards making agar plates which are used in hospital diagnostic and pathology labs to grow bacteria for diagnostic purposes. Now there are 250 horses at the property, and the blood is sent to research facilities across the nation.The horses are split into three mobs and each animal is bleed once every three weeks.
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