Incoming flights screened for exotic diseases.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Sharp, Kerry
- Source
- Geo Australasia. Mar/Apr96, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p8. 3p. 4 Color Photographs.
- Subject
- *BIRD diseases
*AVIAN influenza
*NEWCASTLE disease
- Language
- ISSN
- 1321-6554
Reports on the completion of a two week training and bird screening exercise between the Northern Territory's Primary Industry and Fisheries Department and the Conservation Commission. Screening of 10,000 migratory waders; Arrival of birds from the Arctic; Teams' hunt for the potentially avian influenza and Newcastle diseases; Waders concerned prime suspects for bringing disease into Australia; Actions by quarantine officers. INSET: No known cures..