Transboundary and Emerging Diseases · 2013 · 18 citations · 11 references
Public HealthInfectious Disease ControlInfectious DiseasesTuberculosis ControlVector-borne Disease ControlWildlife ManagementEradication StrategiesTuberculosis Elimination StrategiesVeterinary SurveillanceWildlife ConservationWildlife Disease SurveillanceWildlife Infectious DiseasesEradicationFarm-level Disease ControlInvasive Animal EradicationLivestock Disease SurveillanceLivestock SurveillanceLocalized Infection EradicationTuberculosis In WildlifeWildlife-friendly Pest Management
A review and amendment of New Zealand's National Pest Management Strategy for bovine tuberculosis (TB) has led to adoption of new strategy objectives for localized eradication of disease from the principal wildlife maintenance host and infecting vector for farmed cattle and deer, the brushtail possum Trichosurus vulpecula. Historic programmes have been based on management of disease within herds and control of wildlife directed towards reducing infected herd prevalence. From July 2011, the TB strategy has been redirected towards eradication of TB from possums and other wildlife over a total area of at least 2.5 million hectares over a 15-year period. The amended strategy is intended to provide large-scale proof of concept, using two extensive bush areas, that TB can be eradicated from wildlife in New Zealand in the longer term, leading to eventual savings in control programmes needed to protect cattle and deer herds from infection. Achievement of strategy objectives will be supported by major research together with technical and managerial improvements in wildlife TB control and surveillance, and these are reviewed.
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Peter Caley, G.J. Hickling, P. E. Cowan et al. · New Zealand Veterinary Journal · 1999 · 106 citations