PMWS Fears in Oz

A potentially devastating piglet disease could have reached Australia for the first time, authorities said today.

The Department of Agriculture is investigating two suspected cases of the post-weaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) in South Australia and NSW.

Australia is one of the few countries to have been spared the disease, but a Federal Court ruling last month found quarantine authorities had ignored warnings that pork imports would effectively guarantee the disease would gain a foothold here.

PMWS kills millions of piglets globally each year. The court issued orders banning any more import permits under the existing risk analysis scheme, and blocked one company's permit to import

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Source: themercury

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