Northland farmers can get an update on the Government's Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme in Whangārei today.
Northland is one of five regions in New Zealand MPI figures currently show to have farms with confirmed active presence of the disease along with (in ranked order) Canterbury, Southland, Otago and Hawke's Bay. The disease's presence predominates in Canterbury and the South Island generally.
The South Island has 12 properties under the strongest "restricted place notice" quarantine control category for confirmed active, M. bovis presence, along with the six North Island properties, bringing New Zealand's total number of properties in this category to 18.
The "restricted place notice" quarantine category has been placed on 14 Northland properties since the national eradication campaign began. Nine are now cleared and five properties remain. A further 55 properties have been in the second-strongest "notice of direction" quarantine category for the possibility of having the disease. Of these, 32 are now cleared and 23 properties remain.
Both these quarantine categories are issued under the Biosecurity Act 1993.
