Animal Diseases Pose
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‘Grave Threat ’ in NG
Foot and mouth disease, rabies and Newcastle disease —three animal scourges widespread in Indonesia— will pose a grave threat to the Aus tralian livestock industry when Indo nesia takes over Netherlands New Guinea, according to Mr. Colin C.
Blumer, a former chief of the Divi sion of Animal Husbandry in the New South Wales Department of Agriculture.
He warned in August: “Unless prompt action is taken, their exten sion [from Indonesia] to West New Guinea will be inevitable. Once in troduced to the New Guinea main land, they will inevitably spread to Papua-New Guinea because effective quarantine restrictions cannot be ap plied in underdeveloped countries.”