Other Animal Disease — Australia
A major biosecurity failure likely led to an outbreak of white spot disease in Queensland that cost prawn farmers more than USD 40 million, Australia’s inspector-general of biosecurity has found.
Helen Scott-Orr’s report, released today [11 Dec 2017], details a litany of failings in biosecurity that led to the outbreak of white spot disease in Logan River prawn farms in south-east Queensland, in October 2016.
Dr Scott-Orr said the failed import biosecurity system had allowed huge
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