Clean bill for Dennis farm
PA - . . Wellington The final official word came on Saturday that the. mystery pig disease outbreak on a Temuka farm .earlier this month was definitely,' not foot-and-mouth, or swine vesicular.. “As far as we are concerned the matter is now closed," said a Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries s p ok es man , Mr C. McKenzie. ' There was no evidence whatever of any virus, he said.'. , Exhaustive progressive tests on tissue samples done by Britain’s renowned Pirbright labor-
atory in Surrey had proved negative. So just what were Mr John Dennis’s pigs suffering from? .. . . “We ‘will probably never know. It remains an ■ enigma” said Mr McKenzie. But investigations will continue i> New Zealand. Mr Dennis said on Saturday that he will “still restock — there’s no doubt about that” He felt confident once everything had been cleaned up on the farm. “I would like to know what it was. It would be helpful to everybody.” he said.
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