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Foot-and-mouth disease

November 2022

  • Dead cow being added to a pile of carcasses due to be burned

    UK vulnerable to major animal disease outbreaks, report finds

    Inadequate management and under investment in main Animal and Plant Health Agency facility has left country at risk, MPs warn

August 2022

  • Three brahman cattle on the side of a road on the edge of forest

    New biosecurity taskforce to test Australia’s preparedness for foot-and-mouth disease

    ‘Scenario-based exercises’ to be run over coming weeks to identify gaps in efforts to keep out deadly livestock disease

July 2022

  • biosecurity officers spraying disinfectant on a cattle farm in Indonesia

    Parcels being checked for foot-and-mouth disease but Australian government says border should not shut

    Coalition offers conflicting messages on if Indonesia border should be closed despite industry advice it would ‘do more harm than good’
  • Agriculture Minister Murray Watt speaks during a press conference on July 22, 2022 in Brisbane, Australia

    Foot-and-mouth disease: ‘biosecurity response zones’ set up at airports in Australian first

    Department of agriculture made declaration on Friday afternoon to require travellers to comply with biosecurity rules

    • Australia news live
      Nationals say Labor ‘asleep at the wheel’ as more FMD fragments found – as it happened

    • Labor resists calls to close border to Indonesia after foot-and-mouth viral fragments detected in SA

    • The rural network
      Foot-and-mouth disease: airports to step up precautions as FMD fragments found in meat products in Australia

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