Australia cracks down on pork products from countries hit by African swine fever

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Tourists, international students urged not to bring pork products to Australia from countries hit by African swine fever

African swine fever has decimated pig herds in Asia over the last 12 months, most recently in the Philippines prompting concerns it could spread further south.

"It kills about 80 per cent of pigs it infects and looks like one in four of the world’s pigs will be wiped out by the end of the year. She said the most likely way it would enter Australia would be through passenger luggage or through mail sent to residents in Australia from overseas. From April 17, 2019 new rules came into effect allowing airport authorities to shorten or cancel visitor visas if a visitor fails to declare prohibited items upon entry to the country."The government has now introduced that if you do import these products on a second offence they now have the capacity to deport those people back to their country."

Ms Kerr said if an outbreak was to occur in Australia, the main route of transmission would be from imported products inadvertently fed to local pigs. Professor Michael Reichel is a fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists and the former Dean of Veterinary Medicine at the City University of Hong Kong.

 

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