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Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) staff have ramped up testing procedures and investigations in an effort to determine how a dairy herd in the Selwyn district of Canterbury contracted Mycoplasma bovis.

A mid-Canterbury dairy farm has been confirmed infected with Mycoplasma bovis this week after it was first identified by standard bulk tank milk background screening, according to the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).

OPINION: Kiwi guts and determination have shown the world that the impossible is possible.

New Zealand may have achieved a world first by effectively eradicating Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) - a task that many people claimed was impossible.

Biosecurity and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor says there are currently no farms in New Zealand infected with M. bovis.

The Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme has reached a big milestone with the depopulation of all confirmed infected properties in the stubborn pocket of infection in mid-Canterbury.

An independent review into the Mycoplasma bovis (M.bovis) infection at Wakanui in Mid-Canterbury, shows the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) took the appropriate steps to remove infection in the area.

The Mycoplasma bovis Programme claims to be making good progress towards the eradication of the disease from New Zealand.

An independent review into Mycoplasma bovis infection in Wakanui, mid-Canterbury, shows appropriate steps are being taken to remove infection in the area, says M. bovis Programme director Simon Andrew.

The Mycoplasma bovis Programme seems to be making good progress towards the eradication of the disease from New Zealand.