EXPORT OF BULLS.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19051, 15 September 1933, Page 7

EXPORT OF BULLS.

SCOTLAND TO ARGENTINA. FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE. INFECTED AT BUENOS AIRES. WELLINGTON, Thursday. “Recent statements were given wide publicity in the South to the effect that some Shorthorn bulls, exported from Scotland to the Argentine, were found affected by foot-and-mouth disease while in the quarantine station at Buenos Aires, the Inference being that they had carried the infection with them from Scotland,” stated the Director-General of Agriculture, Dr. C. J. Reakes, to-day. “Information has now been received that the animals arrived at Buenos Aires in a healthy condition, but were attacked with foot-and-mouth disease while in the quarantine station there, Infection having been introduced by an attendant who had previously been in contact with diseased animals. "This is not the first case of imported animals having become infected with foot-and-mouth disease while in the Buenos Aires quarantine station. All the information available indicates clearly that the operation of the British Government’s quarantine station in London has been entirely successful in ensuring that animals passed through it before shipment abroad have remained free from foot-and-mouth disease infection.”