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New Zealand on verge of wiping out painful cattle disease

A sign on a farm limiting access to the property as part of the MPI surveillance program for the disease Micoplasma bovis, in the central Hawks Bay of New Zealand on June 15, 2018. New Zealand, Thursday, May 5, 2022, is on the verge of eradicating a bacterial disease from its herd of 10 million cows, with only a single farm left with the disease Mycoplasma bovis. (Duncan Brown/Hawke's Bay Today via AP) New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern visits the Ngahinapouri farm with owner Jim van der Poel, right, chairman of Dairy NZ, near Hamilton, New Zealand, Thursday, May 5, 2022. New Zealand is on the verge of eradicating a bacterial disease from its herd of 10 million cows, with only a single farm left with the disease Mycoplasma bovis. (Jed Bradley/New Zealand Herald via AP) Dairy cows graze on a farm near Oxford, in the South Island of New Zealand on Oct. 8, 2018. New Zealand, Thursday, May 5, 2022, is on the verge of eradicating a bacterial disease from its herd of 10 million cows, with only a single farm left with the disease Mycoplasma bovis. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) Cows are attached to a rotary milking machine on a farm near Oxford, New Zealand on Oct. 8, 2018. New Zealand, Thursday, May 5, 2022, is on the verge of eradicating a bacterial disease from its herd of 10 million cows, with only a single farm left with the disease Mycoplasma bovis. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) Dairy cows graze on a farm near Oxford, in the South Island of New Zealand on Oct. 8, 2018. New Zealand, Thursday, May 5, 2022, is on the verge of eradicating a bacterial disease from its herd of 10 million cows, with only a single farm left with the disease Mycoplasma bovis. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)
New Zealand on verge of wiping out painful cattle disease