Victoria’s chief veterinary officer Graeme Cooke at the ALSA conference in Bendigo.
THE increasing longer term global risk and ‘inevitability’ of Foot and Mouth Disease reaching Australia was highlighted to saleyard managers at a conference in Bendigo yesterday.
Victorian chief veterinary officer Graeme Cooke said he had bad and good news for the delegates at the Australian Livestock Saleyards Association conference, describing a more threatening situation globally.
The bad news is that feared emergency animal diseases like Foot and Mouth Disease, Lumpy Skin Disease, African Swine…
