Fifteen years ago the New Zealand deer industry established a national control programme for Johne’s disease. Through the 1980s and 90s the fledgling deer industry saw its stock beset with rapidly spreading and severe outbreaks of the fatal mycobacterial gut infection Johne’s disease. A major new animal welfare and productivity issue was emerging at pace...
Tackling Johne’s in deer
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