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The prevention and management of diseases that impact on plants and animals is a key part of Australia’s biosecurity system.Â
The term “disease” is applied broadly and can include viruses (ie. High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza in native birds and poultry); bacterial infections (ie. anthrax in livestock); fungal agents (ie. myrtle rust in native plants); and…
The prevention and management of diseases that impact on plants and animals is a key part of Australia’s biosecurity system.Â
The term “disease” is applied broadly and can include viruses (ie. High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza in native birds and poultry); bacterial infections (ie. anthrax in livestock); fungal agents (ie. myrtle rust in native plants); and water moulds (ie. phytophthora dieback in native plants).Â
Compounding biosecurity risks some pests also carry diseases, such as the exotic polyphagous shothole borer that physically attacks trees and also infects them with Fusarium dieback causing secondary impacts.Â
Given the challenges with identifying and diagnosing diseases, early detection and incursion response to delimit and contain diseases is vitally important to reducing impacts on environmental and agricultural assets.
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