Dr. Damien Barrett:

The countries we can learn most from are probably Australia and particularly New Zealand. Our pasture based system is not unlike the system in New Zealand. They have embarked on these controls around animal movements which we are talking about here. That is a key element. In New Zealand, they have a wildlife reservoir like ourselves but their wildlife reservoir is a possum, which is not a protected species. They also make more aggressive use of the gamma interferon blood testing. The experience there is the curtailment of the movement of high-risk animals from high-risk herds is probably the single most effective thing which we are not applying to the same extent.