Llamas to be held in Timaru
By
PAM MORTON
New Zealand’s first commercial shipment of llamas and alpacas arrived at their final destination in Timaru yesterday but are being kept in quarantine. A technical hitch in testing for the exotic disease Q fever has held up the animals’ release. Ministry of Agriculture officials will not release the animals until they have been declared free of all diseases. An information officer, Dr Chris Boland, said the animals had been tested free of the disease once already but requirements called for a second test. Dr Boland said Chilean officials had stated that the country was free of the disease. The tests would be conducted again as quickly as possible and serum samples would be sent to laboratories overseas, said Dr Boland. The animals had passed all the other disease tests, he said. The 1300 alpacas and llamas have been in quarantine in Wellington for the last two months.
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