MUTTON MEASLES DISEASE
Survey Of Incidence In North Island
(New Zealand Press Association} AUCKLAND, June 12.
A North Island survey of the incidence of mutton measles (taenia ovis) in sheep is being conducted through freezing works with the idea of introducing preventive legislation, said a Department of Agriculture spokesman today. Any legislation would be incorporated with hydatids prevention legislation, he said. The spokesman was commenting on remarks made at the annual conference of the Counties’ Association at Napier. Speakers said that unless prompt legislative measures w r ere adopted, the disease would be as big a menace as hydatids. Experiments in Auckland freezing works so far had shown that the incidence was fairly low, the spokesman said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 12
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