Foot-and-mouth disease Australia

All packages will be screened for the foot and mouth livestock disease while authorities prepared to roll out the first sanitation mats in time for a return ...

“That is what a good neighbour and good governments should do.” “Testing will look at how the mats work, where they are best located and how travellers can use them,” he said. “And that’s why we need to really take that aspect of things seriously and resource it properly as well.” The spokesman said the biosecurity controls included “100 per cent profiling” of all passengers entering Australia from Indonesia in addition to risk assessments, questioning and shoe cleaning of travellers. A Department of Agriculture spokesman said the sanitation foot mats were being deployed in Melbourne from Monday, but the department would need the support of airports to put them in place. Australia Post was unable to disclose the exact number of parcels that arrive from Indonesia and China each year but said the number was in the millions.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Nationals leader David Littleproud have signalled support for a border closure to Indonesia over foot and mouth disease.

It will be temporary to allow Indonesia to catch up and to be able to contain [the disease]. And this is the thing that everyone needs to appreciate. “They’re [Labor] saying this will impact our trade. He said the development of an mRNA vaccine for foot and mouth “would require more resources, more effort from a range of countries to do that, and that is something that we’re considering”. “That would be deemed by the rest of the world as [Australia] having foot and mouth disease, which we don’t,” Mr Watt said in response to questions from The Australian Financial Review. This would grind Australian exports to a halt, he said. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accused the Albanese government of “playing with a loaded gun” on the risk of foot and mouth disease, as the Coalition pushes Labor to close the international border to Indonesia.

According data from the World Organisation for Animal Health, the outbreak of FMD in Indonesia was first detected on April 12, 2022. It was confirmed on May 6, ...

The disease continues to appear regularly throughout the world with the latest notification coming from Zimbabwe. Successive federal government have had to respond with biosecurity measures such as the UK outbreak of 2001. According data from the World Organisation for Animal Health, the outbreak of FMD in Indonesia was first detected on April 12, 2022. FMD is not a new disease, as some of the media reporting infers. Minister Littleproud’s response was reported via the Australian Associated Press as: Dr Schipp continues to post updates on the outbreak.

DEVASTATING: President of the Limestone Coast Local Government Association Erika Vickery said an outbreak of foot and mouth disease would be devastating to the ...

The Limestone Coast councils share the red meat industry’s concerns about the risk of foot and mouth disease spreading from Indonesia to Australia, particularly as holiday makers return home from Bali. “An outbreak of foot and mouth disease would be a disaster for the Limestone Coast” Ms Vickery said. LIMESTONE Coast councils are concerned about the threat foot and mouth disease would pose to the region.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warned an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia could cost thousands of New Zealand jobs, as her nation ...

"While not a threat to humans, it would devastate our national herd. In Australia, parcels and baggage from China and Indonesia are now being checked and there are also foot mats at airports in response to the disease. Ardern warned that the disease, first detected in Indonesia in April, has the potential to threaten up to 100,000 jobs in New Zealand's agriculture sector.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has doubled down on calls for the Albanese Government to "shut the border" to stop the spread of foot and mouth disease (FMD) ...

Stream more Australian news with Flash. 25+ news channels in 1 place. New to Flash? Try 1 month free. "It is important to note Australia is foot and mouth disease free, that our products continue to be available to the world and it’s important we try to do everything we can to maintain that position," Mr Albanese said. Nationals leader David Littleproud said the mere presence of foot and mouth disease in Australia highlighted the incompetence of the government at the border. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has doubled down on calls for the Albanese Government to "shut the border" to stop the spread of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Australia. Peter Dutton has doubled down on his call for Australia to slam its border shut to Indonesia as the leader of the Nationals expressed concern the Albanese Government had "lost control" of the situation amid the spread of foot and mouth disease in the Southeast Asian country.

Travellers arriving at Perth Airport from Bali were made to swab their shoes on disinfecting mats on Monday as the threat of foot and mouth disease looms ...

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The disease is already ripping through Indonesia, and is creeping ever closer to paddocks Down Under, where an outbreak could spell disaster for the livestock ...

The outbreak triggered restrictions on the country’s meat exports and access to the countryside was curbed for visitors. Although the virus comes from the same family — Picornaviridae — as those responsible for common colds, hepatitis A and polio, foot-and-mouth disease crosses the species barrier to infect humans only rarely and with little effect. The virus can also be transmitted via contaminated meat and other animal products, and survive in the environment for several weeks. It is characterized by fever and blister-like sores on the tongue and lips, in the mouth, on the teats and between the hooves. The disease is often spread by humans via their shoes, clothes and luggage — and particles can even live in people’s noses, where they may survive for up to 24 hours. Australia is on high alert for foot-and-mouth disease in its cattle herds after traces of the virus were found on imported animal products.

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The union said it was calling for a federal audit of staffing and workloads. "If it was to make it to the mainland and infect susceptible species, then we would see a lockdown of livestock populations," he said. The analysis also found there was a one in five chance of an African swine fever outbreak, and an eight per cent probability of a lumpy skin disease outbreak. Dr Mahony said the impact would be devastating if any of the diseases were to take hold in Australia. "We saw that in the pandemic, when abattoirs were unable to process animals, then you had shortages of meat in our supermarkets." University of Queensland professor Tim Mahony said it was one of the "clear and present dangers" for Australia's agriculture industry. Australian Pork, the industry's peak body, said the most significant threat in terms of the transmission of the virus was illegally imported pork products, which could be fed as swill to domestic pigs and infect feral populations. He said if the disease got into a piggery, it was likely the pigs there would have to be killed. Originally limited to Africa, the disease has spread to China and South-East Asia, with cases being confirmed on the Indonesian island of Sumatra in March 2022. "We're coming up now into the warmer part of the year and that will then promote the likelihood of mosquitoes breeding," he said. "It causes all sorts of things, like mummified piglets when they are born, neurological diseases in the pigs in their first year of life," he said. JEV was first documented in Japan in 1871 and has since become endemic to South-East Asia and the Western Pacific.

Australia's top vet has offered a prediction on the “danger period” of a deadly virus that could devastate the agriculture industry.

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Australia's chief veterinary officer, Dr Mark Schipp, says closing the borders isn't currently warranted but “we review that almost on a daily basis”. “ ...

Contact with animals like giraffes, elephants and kangaroos will be limited at zoos in Victoria as concern about a potential foot-and-mouth disease outbreak ...

"If we can help mitigate the risk of potential disease in Australia, these are the steps we are keen to address." The message said the measures were intended to lower the risk of animals coming into contact with "soil that could have potentially been brought in from outside the zoo grounds". Last night Zoos Victoria, which runs the Melbourne and Werribee zoos and Healesville Sanctuary, sent a message to members announcing the elephant enclosure's public pathway would be closed out of an "abundance of caution".

The zoo's giraffe, kangaroo, and elephant animal encounters are also temporarily unavailable. Melbourne Zoo changes protocols to protect animals from potential ...

“As we have said all along, we believe the greater risk of (foot and mouth disease) getting into Australia is via incorrectly or illegally labelled meat products from overseas,” he said in a statement. The zoo said that the risk of transmission to its animals was extremely low, but it was announcing a series of protocol changes. There have been no domestic outbreaks reported as yet and Australia’s borders are remaining open, despite a push by the opposition to close them.

It advises that all giraffe, kangaroo and elephant animal encounters will not be available at the moment. An area of Melbourne Zoo has also been blocked off to ...

Zoos Victoria CEO Dr Jenny Gray said the measures had been brought in out of "an abundance of caution" to protect the animals. The email also requests certain people avoid visiting zoos at the moment. People who have livestock and who have recently returned from Indonesia are also being asked to stay away from the zoos amid fears the disease could spread in Australia.

Amid outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia, many have called on the Australian Government to close off its borders to our northern neighbour.

“What we’re trying to avoid is an impact, by definition, on our trade. “Australia’s travel agents and businesses and AFTA are proud to be doing what we can to help keep Australia safe from foot-and-mouth disease,” AFTA CEO Dean Long said. Among those vocalising this demand are opposition MPs Barnaby Joyce and Karen Andrews. However, the Albanese government has implemented the “strongest ever” biosecurity measure to keep borders open, with the travel industry following suit.