A disfiguring disease of cattle and buffalo has arrived on our doorstep. We need to keep lumpy skin disease out of Australia, while preparing for the almost inevitable outbreak.
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Foot-and-mouth disease rarely kills animals, but it leads to production losses and economic knocks.
The unpopular badger cull has had only ‘modest’ success in reducing bovine TB, according to a recent report. What would an alternative approach that was effective and humane look like?
New Zealand has decided to attempt an eradication of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis, which means culling thousands of infected cattle.
Outbreaks of foot and mouth, bluetongue and human Ebola can now be controlled with greater precision and speed.
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor Production Animal Health, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Associate professor, University of Pretoria
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Director, Centre for Animal Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Animal Health and Director, Centre for Animal Science, The University of Queensland
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HoD Production Animal Studies, Senior Lecturer in Animal Disease Control and Primary Animal Health Care, University of Pretoria
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Professor of Zoonotic and Emerging Disease, University of Nottingham