North Canterbury Dairy Farm Infected

The first dairy farm in North Canterbury was confirmed as infected with Mycoplasma bovis

The dairy farm was in the Waimakariri district and connected by animal movements to other infected farms

While two other North Canterbury properties were infected with M. bovis, they were both beef properties

To date, 28,279 animals have been slaughtered by MPI, part of a planned slaughter of about 150,000 cattle in an attempt to rid the country of M. bovis, a bacterial disease that can cause incurable mastitis, abortion and arthritis in cows.

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The disease is harmless to humans and has not been transmitted by meat or milk.

Canterbury had the largest number of farms infected with M. bovis at 23 and 17 at Southland.

Of the 23 farms in Canterbury, five had been depopulated, cleaned, fallowed and replenishable – the latest being an Ashburton farm.

The confirmed infected properties totaled 54, of which 13 had been cleared of the disease.

As of July 6, 67 claims with a total of nearly $ 12.5 million have been paid to the affected farmers, and $ 17.3 million of claims have been assessed to date

197 claims were received, worth $ 28.7 million, according to MPI.

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