It comes after a world-first eradication campaign involving the culling of thousands of cattle, which MPI has described as one of its biggest-ever biosecurity responses. However the Minister for Biosecurity and Agriculture says he can’t rule out occasionally finding M. bovis elsewhere in the country.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2022/05/05/mycoplasma-bovis-nearly-eradicated-expert-reaction/