Mid Canterbury farm infected with new strain of M. Bovis

Mid Canterbury farm infected with new strain of M. Bovis
The incidence of Mycoplasma bovis was reduced to one farm earlier this year, but has since spread. (Image: Getty)
Riley Kennedy
Testing for Mycoplasma bovis will be ramped up this summer after a new strain of the cattle disease was found on an infected Mid Canterbury farm.Currently, four properties in the area are infected with the disease. Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) M. bovis eradication programme director Simon Andrew has confirmed a new strain was identified on one of them through genomic testing.Earlier this year, it was believed the infection had been isolated to only one property – the Five Star Beef feedlot near Ashburton – following the sec...

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