An additional eight Australian cattle have tested positive to lumpy skin disease after their arrival in Indonesia where the disease is widespread, the Federal Government confirmed yesterday.
A file picture of an Indonesian calf with lumpy skin disease.
The development, which comes despite extensive recent testing of 1000 cattle in Australia which found no trace of the disease, is set to paralyse further trade of Australian cattle to Indonesia until the ongoing stalemate over Australia’s LSD status is resolved.
Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has confirmed…
