WITH close to half the national cattle population within its borders, Queensland has strengthened prevention and preparedness efforts in response to the detection of lumpy skin disease and foot-and-mouth disease in Indonesia.
Image: Swelling of lymph nodes across the animal’s body. Source: AW Coetzer, E Tupparainen, S Babiuk and DB Wallace (2018). Lumpy skin disease. In Infectious Diseases of Livestock.
Both diseases have the potential to cause significant and far-reaching impacts to Australia’s livestock industries, including considerable economic losses and restrictions.
The state…
