Blue tongue threat to Australia's sheep

Authors: Rees F
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 26, Issue 1-2, pp 36, Jan 1978
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant, Sheep
Subject Terms: Biosecurity, Viral, Notifiable organisms/exotic disease, Disease/defect, Infectious disease
Article class: Correspondence

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Abstract: For years Australian veterinarians have begged the Australian government to build, as a matter of the highest priority, a laboratory where trained staff could screen new viruses to alert Australian governments to the presence of exotic diseases. Now the folly of ignoring this advice is dramatically apparent to the Australian sheep-farmer. The W.H.O. virus laboratory at Yale University has recently informed the Australian government that samples of a virus, detected 2½ years ago in northern Australia, have shown blue tongue characteristics…

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