Disease

Farmers fear resurgences of disease as testing authority drops OSPRI contract.

Rural Women, Massey pool resources to help combat illness.

Second levy cut in a month related to M bovis battle.

Ministry for Primary Industries cautions that eradicating highly contagious bird flu in New Zealand's wild birds may be impractical, stressing preparedness.

Hoggard says ‘big step forward’ will ensure OSPRI has the right tools.

Facial eczema programmme to benefit from top economic modelling.

Aim is an affordable, accurate and animal welfare-friendly tolerance test for a condition that costs $300m a year.

Researchers spot link between extreme rainfall events and incidence of diarrhoea-causing parasite in waterways.

Extensive work is underway by Biosecurity New Zealand to prepare for high pathogenicity avian influenza, writes Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard.

The virus has proved adept at moving between species – and that is very bad news for humans, writes Richard Rennie.

Robust surveillance, strict biosecurity and a good knowledge of symptoms are all vital to try and keep the disease at bay in New Zealand.

NZ farmers told to be vigilant as debilitating disease jumps species.

Crucial to prevent importation of drench-resistant worms onto property, warns BLNZ.

Informing NZ Beef and facial eczema projects to benefit.

Integrape has partnered with agricultural robotics supplier Agri Automation, which will provide a self-driving Burro robot that will be equipped with cameras.

Last known farm cleared – for now – as MPI turns focus on imported semen as a source of infection.

With funding in place and covid’s lessons still fresh, AgResearch could be closing in on a solution to costly condition.

New approach raises possibility of restricting eliminations to individual cattle rather than removing entire herds.

Neighbouring farm to property found to have infection in September.

NZFS agency has advice for tackling antimocrobial resistance.

Farmers should not be affected by the move and the M bovis levies will not increase.

Mycoplasma bovis partners propose to move disease eradication programme from the Ministry for Primary Industries.

A research project is applying climate change scenarios to put a cost on disease impacts and adaptation measures.

NZ Pork seeks ban of imports from affected countries as disease spreads in Europe.

Both families of novel drenches in NZ will be affected over next six months.

In its submission to MPI, Feds said OSPRI is the best organistion to deliver of the level of integration needed.

Strain of infection identified as the original detected in New Zealand.

The effects of Cyclone Gabrielle are still hitting farmers, with veterinarians seeing a rapid rise in leptospirosis cases in both people and animals.

Views sought on proposal to move eradication effort to new home in OSPRI.

Pest management monitoring picks up genetic variation.

No infected farms in NZ as mammoth effort reaches halfway mark.

The significant lifts in the rate of human infections prompted MPI's animal health endemic team to notify vets of the elevated risk of the disease spreading in livestock.

Programme goes all out for vulnerable native species under attack from myrtle rust.

Coccidiosis is prevalent throughout New Zealand, and thrives in warm, moist conditions.

O’Connor acknowledged there had been some “horrific scenarios” for many individual farmers because of uncertainty in the early stages.

As a precaution, farmers should ask their semen supplier about what testing has been performed.