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…