Outbreak White spot disease

The problem come from overseas? So the R&D must come from there.... LFT-Au must organise a coordination system for international professional and students, raise the revenues and share with our farmers....
 -lft note---



Outbreak White spot disease





White spot disease is a highly contagious viral infection that affects crustaceans.

A
sixth prawn farm on the Logan River in South East Queensland has
returned positive results for white spot syndrome virus – which causes
white spot disease.

The farm has completed its harvest of all
ponds. The next steps will be to treat the water remaining in these
ponds. Prawns harvested from the farm have been cooked to meet
biosecurity requirements.



The
Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
has completed its destruction of infected prawns in production ponds on
the five previous infected farms. Efforts will now focus on treating
the water and removing biomass from these ponds. Once the biomass is
treated it will be disposed of under strict biosecurity protocols. The
ponds will then undergo a drying out and decontamination period. It is
estimated that the disposal and decontamination phase will take several
months.

The national Aquatic Consultative Committee on Emergency
Animal Diseases meets regularly to provide technical and expert advice
as the response in Queensland progresses. Based on current information
and good progress, the committee remains of the view that the disease
can be eradicated.

National response arrangements are in place, including
AQUAVETPLAN which sets out agreed destruction, disposal and
decontamination activities.