Mitch Cooper
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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There'll be sort of fairly significant lockdown areas and roadblocks and lots of things put in place to stop the spread from happening.
And so it does have quite a major impact on the ability to farm just in a normal way.
It's important to know that these clinical signs aren't always foot and mouth disease.
It's really key that if farmers do see some of these clinical signs that they should reach out to their vet or call the exotic disease hotline and get things checked out.
Obviously, given that we haven't had foot and mouth disease, it's probably not going to be, and there are a few things that look like it in a few diseases that exist in New Zealand, but it's really important to make sure you get things checked.
Yeah, M. bovis is a bit of a different beast because it's sort of an underlying, grumbling, chronic health issue that impacts production more so.
You don't often see really sick cows and it's certainly much less infective.
Foot and mouth disease can be spread through all sorts of secretions.
It's sort of airborne spread.
M. bovis is a little bit harder to spread and it's sort of mostly through milk or sort of direct nose-to-nose contact.
So the sort of scale of severity is quite different, but a lot of the management options might be the same.
So you see whole herd depopulation, you'll see lots of sort of casing and tracing of case farms and probably just a plug to make sure your NAIT records are always up to date and as accurate as you can get them because at the time of an outbreak, one of the biggest things we need to be able to do is really, really good farm-to-farm traceability and that starts with NAIT.
South Africa have been battling with FND since 2019.
It is widespread throughout the country in sort of all areas where the all blacks are playing test pretty much.
So it is quite a challenging disease from South Africa's perspective.
They obviously have a very different scenario to us.
We're surrounded by water and we have very easy to control our borders.
They don't quite have those luxuries and very different farming systems, very different economies.
And so it has essentially become endemic in multiple parts of the country, which means whilst they are trying to make progress towards getting rid of it, for now they're living with it to a degree and sort of making slow progress towards eradication.
The important thing to remember is that, yes, South Africa has foot and mouth disease, but the risk of you coming into contact with infected animals is still pretty low, particularly if you're not going out on farms or you're not going on any wildlife tours.
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