Foot-and-mouth disease

Agriculture minister says disinfectant mats will be installed to prevent arrival of the disease, which is spreading in Indonesia.

These flights are subject to biosecurity screening of all passengers and crew.” “You don’t have to go to the rural areas to come across livestock. “It’s completely justifiable that people are concerned. It’s a horrible virus that would lead to significant impact, but there are a wide range of measures in place that just aren’t particularly visible to the community,” he said. But according to Aaron Dodd, an expert in biosecurity at the University of Melbourne, there are a large number of additional biosecurity controls that have been put in place in Indonesia, at Australia’s borders, and onshore that he fears are getting lost in the conversation. “These sanitation mats will be a physical reminder to passengers to do the right thing to limit any spread of FMD, and will be used in conjunction with our current measures, such as passenger declaration, 100% profiling of all passengers entering from Indonesia, real time risk assessments, questioning and shoe cleaning,” Watt said on Wednesday.

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Travellers arriving in Australia from Indonesia will be asked to walk across the mats to sanitise their shoes. "If you try to bring or post products into the country, you will be caught and we will take action." It's the first time viral fragments have been detected in a retail setting, Senator Watt said.

The devastating livestock disease is sweeping across Bali and poses an $80 billion economic threat to Australia.

It causes fever, lameness, and lesions on the tongue, feet, snout, and teats. The disease infects cloven-hoofed animals and does not affect the health of humans. Just one positive case of foot and mouth on an Australian farm could shut the $27 billion livestock export trade down for months or even years. “We have detected foot and mouth disease and African swine fever viral fragments in a small number of pork products for sale in the Melbourne CBD that were imported from China,” Watt said on Wednesday. An outbreak on Indonesia’s main island of Java has spread to the popular tourist island of Bali, which is visited by more than 1 million Australians a year, ramping up the risk of a first-ever outbreak in livestock Down Under. Foot and mouth disease and swine fever have been detected in animal products in Australia before. Pork products that were for sale in the Melbourne CBD were also found during routine inspections to contain viral fragments of both foot and mouth disease and African swine fever – another livestock disease that has not previously circulated among animals in Australia.

Indonesia is imploring Australia not to panic, despite a shortage of foot and mouth vaccines or even personnel to administer the shots to livestock.

There have been 401,205 cases detected across 22 of Indonesia’s 34 provinces, mostly in cows, according to its foot and mouth taskforce. “Everyone else, and rightfully so, went to the baggage carousel, picked up their bags and walked out the door. He and his wife ticked the box on their returning passenger card stating they had been on a farm. Foot and mouth infects cloven-hoofed animals and does not affect the health of humans. The federal government has estimated the total cost of a major outbreak at $80 billion. Hopefully, there will be no sick cattle in Bali.

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We have biosecurity officers managing this risk on a daily basis," he said, adding that X-rays and detector dogs are also being used in association with the foot mats. "We knew that foot and mouth disease, once it entered Indonesia, would get into Bali and spread further and we ramped up our biosecurity efforts in response to that." "We knew that foot and mouth disease, once it entered Indonesia, would get into Bali and spread further and we ramped up our biosecurity efforts in response to that." "The affected cattle would all have to be slaughtered and I would think in a huge radius of wherever the cattle are that are contaminated." "The affected cattle would all have to be slaughtered and I would think in a huge radius of wherever the cattle are that are contaminated." "If it were to arrive in Australia we would lose the majority of our market access for animal products, and animals themselves.

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“Shoes need to either be left there, thrown in the bin, or there has to be washing of shoes upon re-entering Australia.” “There would be a lot of slaughtered cattle,” she told the Nine Network. Farmer Ann Shipp said she was “very worried” about the impact the disease would have on Australia’s industry if it did enter the country. “Many countries in our region have foot and mouth disease, and we’ve been dealing with that for decades,” he told the Nine Network. “We need the travelling public to do the right thing … We need people to clean their shoes thoroughly or preferably leave them behind,” he told ABC News. “It goes through the roof.”

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