I am a complete newby to the board with no WC agenda whatsoever. My son is a first year wrestler and will not be going to the WC because I don't feel he is ready yet for that level of competetion.

With that being said. I know a little about animals particularly livestock animals. The post from the person who is a nurse was very spot on in relation to possible transmissible microorganisms that are a concern with livestock.The one correction or rather point of contention that I have with that was the discussion of antibiotics fed to livestock adding to the risk. It is true that antibiotics are frequently fed to ruminant animals for weight gain and improved feed effieciency,they are commonly reffered to as ionophores.

However Show quality animals are fed and treated much differently than food production animals. I think in 98/100 of these animals you would not find ionophores being fed to these "pets". Most of those animals are fed exacting and well managed diets free of additives designed to add the most weight in the shortest amounts of time before slaughter.If the Coliseum does allow livestock production sales in this facility I would be much more concerned.

And it is these show types of animals that are typically brought around the country for shows and exhibits.I would be interested to see the method they use to clean and sanitize this facility after such shows. The floor could easily be checked for the presence of dangerous pathogens and microorganisms with some random swab tests around the floor surface. What something like that would cost I'm not exactly sure. But I would think that anytime you would be putting mats directly on the surface that livestock has recently used it would be mandated like the increased water sample tests in the Arkansas river just before Riverfest.