Foot and mouth disease

South Burnett Regional Council will write to the Federal Government to request it temporarily suspend all travel to and from countries affected by foot and ...

“Some people will say this is an overreaction and will adversely affect the Indonesian economy, but the devastation of a foot-and-mouth outbreak in Australia would be widespread to not just producers but consumers and taxpayers as well. Senator McDonald said it was not clear that the Federal Government and industry had responded quickly enough and adequately to an outbreak of foot-and-mouth in Bali, and believes suspending Bali flights should be investigated. She said outbreak of FMD in Australia would unleash a crisis of “biblical proportions”, costing the nation billions of dollars in management and eradication, not to mention the destruction of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs at a time when food security is a critical issue in the world. The identification of FMD in Australia would have catastrophic impacts on Australia’s ability to export high-value products into premium markets and would mean devastating financial pain in the agricultural and value-add industry. He said FMD would not only be a disaster for the region’s livestock producers – who would be forced to cull their herds – but also consumers who would have to deal with a chronic shortage of beef and pork products that would affect supermarkets, cafes and restaurants. Cr Henchen said he understood Barcaldine and Western Downs Regional Councils had recently moved to ramp up awareness about the risk of FMD in their regions, and urged the South Burnett to do the same.

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Hundreds had filed into the temple where Abe's funeral was held on Monday evening and Tuesday morning, prior to the private ceremony, to pay their respects. NSW Health has also revised the COVID-19 reinfection period down to four weeks. Do you find the news cycle overwhelming? Her latest one includes a Paris modeling job gone wrong and a possible drug fiasco. NSW Deputy Premier Paul Toole said discussions with the federal government and other states had taken place about implementing stringent controls for returning holiday-makers. FMD shouldn’t be confused with the human disease that is hand, foot and mouth, which is different. Australians should also stay away from livestock for a week after their return. Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a contagious viral disease which impacts livestock – pigs, cattle, sheep and goats – and holds serious consequences for agriculture industries. Australia has become the first country in the world to enable women and people born with a cervix to conduct their own screening for Human Papilloma Virus, in the hope it will encourage more women to get regular check ups. And Cameron Diaz is making a return to Hollywood with a role in a new Netflix movie and that means she’s back on the publicity trail and telling all sorts of wild stories. He warned of the dire threat the disease posed to the cattle industry and the livelihoods of thousands of farmers across the state. NSW Agriculture Minister Dugald Saunders said with 103 flights each week from Australia to Bali "foot and mouth disease is the closest it has ever been to our country". The virus has not been detected in Australia for over 150 years.

An outbreak of the highly contagious disease could devastate the livestock industry and also poses a 'critical risk' to your regular cup of joe.

“Nobody wants to be the person who brings in a disease that would devastate our livestock industry, cost the economy $80 billion, and shatter regional communities for years to come,” he said on Wednesday. He also warned of the dire threat the disease posed to the cattle industry and the livelihoods of thousands of farmers across the state. “The disease would leave scars on rural Australia for years to come.”

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Biosecurity officials say New Zealand has guaranteed access to vaccines for foot-and-mouth disease if it is detected here.

An outbreak could have a severe impact on the economy however. "But that said, we do have some experience in dealing with these sorts of things, we've got recent experience in dealing with Mycoplasma bovis, we have got some of the best biosecurity systems in the world, and that could mean that there would be the possibility that rural regions could bounce back from this very quickly." Anderson said the vaccines could be shipped to New Zealand "within a matter of days" if needed.

The disease, which can cause severe lameness and death in cloven-hooved animals including cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats, was also confirmed in the holiday ...

An outbreak could have a severe impact on the economy. Anderson said the vaccines could be shipped to New Zealand "within a matter of days" if needed. "We have 500,000-odd doses of vaccine covering the nine main strains of foot-and-mouth disease in the UK in a vaccine bank, which is available for our exclusive use, and they can rapidly ramp up manufacturing more if we were to need them," he said.

Australian travellers returning from Bali could face tough restrictions as fears grow over the foot-and-mouth outbreak.

“The impact of getting this wrong is catastrophic, it is biblical proportions the impact it would have on Australian farmers, Australian animals and Australian consumers.” Foot and mouth disease is one of the most serious livestock diseases in the world and affects cloven-hoofed animals like cattle, sheep, and pigs. “We cannot overstate the impact of foot and mouth disease if it got into this country,” Ms McDonald told Sunrise on Thursday.

Shadow Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews says there are concerns foot and mouth disease has already come into Australia and has not yet been detected as ...

Foot and mouth disease is one of the most serious livestock diseases out there. It's a highly contagious virus that affects cloven-hoofed animals — that is, ...

If foot and mouth disease is found in Australia, we would be cut off from the export market, which makes up about 70% of Australia’s meat trade. Alert officers to anything that may have come into contact with an animal and don’t be precious about your luggage. Holidaymakers could easily pick up the virus on their clothes or shoes by visiting farms, petting buffalos or pigs in markets or fields, or even just by walking around temple grounds, the road or the sidewalk. It is incredibly contagious — about as contagious as the COVID-19 Omicron variant, according to Professor Michael Ward — and in most cases, the whole flock will catch it. On top of this, having never dealt with our own outbreak before, it’s hard to know how quickly we could eradicate the virus. However, you can’t know what cloven-hoofed beast has walked the streets before you, so experts are also warning that you ditch your footwear on the island.

Australia's meat, dairy, wool and live export trades would be frozen overnight and a three-day national “livestock standstill” imposed if foot and mouth ...

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He said he doesn't accuse anyone of overreacting as he considers FMD a “serious threat” and can “completely understand” the concerns expressed by the livestock ...

Biosecurity NZ says vaccines could be ready to roll out within days if FMD detected here.

An outbreak could have a severe impact on the economy, however. Anderson said the vaccines could be shipped to New Zealand "within a matter of days" if needed. Foot-and-mouth vaccines can protect cattle once the virus is detected on a farm, but are tricky to roll out - the virus has a number of strains and the vaccine needs to match the strain that is circulating to be effective.

Australia's Agriculture Minister rules out a ban on flights from Indonesia as a way to prevent a devastating livestock disease from entering the country.

"The reality is a lot of people come back from Bali not wearing the kind of work boots that you wear on a farm, so we don't want to put people in danger from that. Mr Watt is meeting with Indonesian ministers in Jakarta today and will commit Australian support for Indonesian authorities to manage the spread of FMD. "I've received no advice from biosecurity experts in Australia that that's the kind of thing that we should do," Mr Watt said.

Tourism leaders say any talk of suspending travel with Bali or reintroducing restrictions could seriously threaten the industry as a whole as it struggles ...

"The travellers going to Bali are travelling to go surfing, to have cultural interactions but not remembering that the pig farm or the cattle being farmed right next to the resort they are staying in," she said. More than 300,000 animals in Indonesia have been infected with the disease since it was first detected in the country in May. Australia's Agriculture Minister Murray Watt today ruled out a ban on flights from Indonesia as a way to prevent a devastating livestock disease from entering the country.

National Farmers Federation president Fiona Simson says there needs to be greater public awareness about biosecurity threats.

We need all travellers returning from Indonesia - and we know just how many Aussies love to find the sun in Bali - to understand foot and mouth disease and how serious this situation is. There is a plan if foot and mouth disease arrives on our shores, but unfortunately if this happens the fallout would be immense. It affects every single Australian and while we don't need to panic just yet, if all Australians understand what biosecurity is and what they can do it helps arm us against a potentially devastating situation.

Agriculture Minister Murray Watt announced the vaccine push and a $500000 grant to boost industry co-operation after meeting his Indonesian counterpart in ...

Tomorrow is too late – Labor need to implement new measures today,” Mr Hogan said. Workers were disinfecting farms and there were measures in place to disinfect workers’ clothing as well, Mr Limpo said. Tourist arrivals to Bali have shot up in recent weeks. The federal opposition wants stricter measures. Mr Limpo said all animals infected with FMD on Bali had been killed. There are 366,733 FMD cases in Indonesia affecting mostly cows but also in buffalo, sheep and pigs.