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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Keywords
Foot rot, Sheep diseases, Bacteroides nodosus, Disease control, Control programmes, Western Australia
Disciplines
Animal Diseases | Sheep and Goat Science
First Page Number
42
Last Page Number
47
ISSN
0021-8618
Abstract
Western Australia has a unique opportunity to eradicate virulent footrot from the State's sheep flock, with only 62 properties or 0.6 per cent of sheep properties currently in quarantine. The majority of Western Australian flocks are now free of virulent footrot, with targeted on-farm and abattoir surveillance used to detect the remaining properties affected by the disease. Bob Mitchell reports on how farmers, industry, and government are working together, with research playing an important part in the eradication campaign.
Recommended Citation
Mitchell, R K.
(1999)
"Eradicating virulent footrot from Western Australia,"
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4: Vol. 40:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture4/vol40/iss1/10