The devastating foot and mouth disease, which threatens to decimate Australia’s livestock industry, has been detected in goods coming into Australia from both Indonesia and China.
Agriculture Minister Murray Watt revealed on Wednesday that viral fragments of foot and mouth disease had been detected in a beef product at an Australian airport, brought by a passenger from Indonesia. Federal Agriculture Minister Murray Watt with his Indonesian counterpart Syahrul Yasin Limpo during a joint press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia last week.“Several other pork products for retail sale have tested positive for African swine fever viral fragments.
“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 per cent profiling of all passengers entering from Indonesia, real-time risk assessments, questioning and shoe cleaning,” he said.
Mahar said the government must continue to ramp up biosecurity measures to detect the disease in line with the escalating risks.Mahar said the government should urgently implement any new technology measures that could help trace and detect the virus, and allocate extra funding to ensure every returning Bali passenger was screened by a biosecurity officer at airports.
micksfoley Ban immediately all flights from bali entering Australia. ban immediately all flights from Indonesia from entering Australia. For the safety and protection of Australia 🇦🇺
micksfoley Stop all fights and ships from Indonesia including Bali for a month to further assist the situation. The risk is far, far too high to not take that precaution.
micksfoley Well done Australia authorities for finding and eradicating these fragments.
micksfoley How long have we known about this outbreak in Indonesia? If over a 6 month then somebody’s gotta be held accountable and somebody’s got a lose their job and/or go to jail
micksfoley COVID isn’t just a ‘sniffle’. Wake up people.
micksfoley Just to be clear. They stopped children going to school for a sniffle for 2 years but allow flights in and out of a country that has active foot and mouth disease outbreak. Strawberry growers had to dump ALL their strawberries for a couple of needles... Cmon people, wake up.
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Foot and mouth disease detected in meat products in AustraliaBreaking The devastating foot and mouth disease, which threatens to decimate Australia’s livestock industry, has been detected in goods coming into Australia. | micksfoley micksfoley Our so-called leaders need to get onto this NOW. No plans, no inquiries, no bullshit - get something done micksfoley Being that this was detected on good from China, should we not be banning all imports - kinda like what they did to us. micksfoley Going to plan?
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NSW backs plan to tag millions of sheep to prepare for foot-and-mouth diseaseThe NSW government backs mandatory electronic ID tags for millions of sheep and goats to ensure any outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease can be traced. This is a joke right? Err no.
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