Foot-and-mouth disease fears spark extra government funding to keep it out of Australia | The World

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Australia will spend $14m bolstering its defence against foot and mouth disease after it was detected in Bali earlier this month. It has been our number one priority in terms of exotic diseases. The University of Sydney’s Michael Ward, who worked in South America during an outbreak there, tells The World FMD has been a “number one priority in terms of exotic diseases.”

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