Biosecurity efforts are being ramped up at Adelaide Airport after the discovery of viral fragments of foot-and-mouth disease.
Biosecurity efforts are being ramped up at Adelaide Airport after the discovery of viral fragments of foot-and-mouth disease .Viral fragments were found in meat brought in by a passenger at Adelaide AirportAgriculture Minister Murray Watt said the fragments were picked up in an undeclared beef product brought in by a passenger from Indonesia.
The only flights into Adelaide from Indonesia are from Bali, where there has been an outbreak of the disease, which affects cattle, goats, sheep and pigs. While it rarely affects humans, people can carry the virus for up to 24 hours and be a source of infection for animals. A highly contagious disease, foot and mouth is currently active in Indonesia and sanitation mats are being rolled out in Australia's international airports — with Cairns and Darwin airports to install them within days — as a precaution, to clean the footwear of arriving passengers.Senator Watt said biosecurity officials were being extra vigilant with international flights.
"From time to time we discover things that people haven't declared and that was the way that we found beef fragments and beef products that contained viral fragments of FMD at Adelaide Airport," he said.
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