NATIONAL AFFAIRS: EI inquiry hears of more quarantine failures*

After last year’s equine influenza outbreak, Australians are entitled to ask whether our quarantine system in relation to import of plants and other animals (including aquarium fish) has experienced similar failures.Further evidence of the inadequacies of Australia’s quarantine regime which led to the outbreak of horse flu last August has been given to the commission of inquiry into the outbreak of equine influenza (EI) in Sydney.The commission is headed by a former justice of the High Court of …

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