PRO/AH/EDR> Mycoplasma bovis, bovine – New Zealand (04)

Other Animal Disease — New Zealand
A serious bacterial cattle disease has been identified at 3 more farms in New Zealand, raising the number of affected farms to 6, the country’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) said on [Tue 29 Aug 2017].
Two of the farms that reported positive results for the _Mycoplasma bovis_ disease belong to the Van Leeuwen Dairy Group, which also owns the 1st 2 farms to report the bacteria in July [2017].
The owner of the 3rd unnamed farm in the country’s South Island had received a small