{"id":23920,"date":"2013-02-15T14:56:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T04:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=23920"},"modified":"2020-09-28T11:35:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T01:35:31","slug":"good-bad-news-on-bjd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/02\/15\/good-bad-news-on-bjd\/","title":{"rendered":"Good & Bad News On BJD"},"content":{"rendered":"

February 15, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Movement restrictions will be removed from at least 20 Queensland cattle properties over the next week, while another trace forward property has tested positive with Bovine Johne’s Disease (BJD).<\/p>\n

Chief Biosecurity Officer Dr Jim Thompson said the latest property with BJD had been under movement restrictions as it had received cattle from the infected property in Rockhampton.<\/p>\n

“This latest positive result, which was detected using the new PCR faecal test, brings the total number of infected properties in the most recent response to four,” Dr Thompson said.<\/p>\n

“Initial information indicates that this latest property sends most of its stock to slaughter and there may only be a small number of further trace forward properties that may require movement restrictions. This is being confirmed.”<\/p>\n

Dr Thompson said that with the release of the 20 properties, the current number of properties under movement restrictions would drop to under 100.<\/p>\n

“Obviously this figure may increase again if more positive results are received and more trace forward properties identified, but for now, we are taking this reduction as a positive sign,” he said.<\/p>\n

“These new developments demonstrate that our processes are working – test results are being received faster and where possible properties are being released.”<\/p>\n

Dr Thompson said we would be contacting relevant owners as soon as possible to notify them if their movement restrictions had been lifted.<\/p>\n

“While this is positive news, we need to remember that we still have a long way to go in this response,” he said.<\/p>\n

“BJD is a difficult disease to test for and manage and while results to date have been encouraging, there may be further positive results as we continue this testing program.<\/p>\n

“As I have said previously, we are committed to working with industry to ensure Queensland\u00b4s protected status for BJD remains intact.”<\/p>\n

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