Jason Collins from ST Genetics and dairy farmer Mitch Jones from Cypress Grove Holsteins, Foster.
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Jeanette Severs
In response to a rising number of outbreaks of pestivirus — or bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) — Hico Australia hosted a meeting in Warragul, Victoria, for dairy and beef farmers, veterinarians and service providers.
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Pestivirus causes abortion in cows, ill-thrift, and diarrhoea and respiratory diseases, including pneumonia, in young animals.
As a result of infection in early foetal life, usually before 100 days gestation, those calves that survive become lifelong carriers of the virus.
Diagnosis is via testing milk from the vat and taking ear notches from, initially, those animals showing symptoms, and may be the entire herd.
Pestigard is the registered vaccine for use in Australia.
See the October issue of Dairy News Australia for more about pestivirus.
Kristen Davis from Dairy Australia, with Dr Alex Boileau from ProDairy and Kay-Lee Bransgrove, a dairy farmer from Neerim.
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Jeanette Severs
Hagus Gebremikael from IDEXX, with Leesa Wade and Emily Bevan from Hico Australia.
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Jeanette Severs
Vincent Heeran from IDEXX, dairy farmer Robert Langley from Nar Nar Goon North, and David Dunlop from Hico Australia.
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Jeanette Severs
Justine Langley, a dairy farmer from Nar Nar Goon North, with Allan Murray from IDEXX.
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Jeanette Severs
Evan Campbell and Kellie Price, with Arlie Campbell, all from Yannathan, and Helen Jones from Foster.
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Jeanette Severs
