{"id":2369,"date":"2018-08-29T16:04:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T06:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2018-09-08T16:06:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T06:06:15","slug":"vets-welcome-biosecurity-funding-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"Vets welcome biosecurity funding boost"},"content":{"rendered":"The Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) has welcomed the government\u2019s announcement of increased funding for disease surveillance as part of a $137.8 million investment in biosecurity.<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAVA President Paula Parker, said general disease surveillance is important to maintain Australia\u2019s favourable animal health status and for the early detection of animal disease outbreaks.\r\n\u201cEmergency animal diseases are a significant threat to animal industries and we look forward to seeing greater use of private veterinary practitioners to support animal disease surveillance and investigation to protect animal industries and public health,\u201d\r\n\r\n\u201cAs towns and suburbs expand further into farming regions and bushland, we are living closer and closer to animals and impinging on their habitats. The risk of disease spread, both to and from animals, has never been greater, and we have seen this with emerging diseases such as Hendra and Lyssa viruses,\u201d Parker said.\r\n\r\n\u201cThis is an asset that the government must protect. Every dollar spent on prevention and preparedness protects against potential billions in losses \u2026 the role of veterinarians is critical to effective disease surveillance and response capabilities,\u201d\r\n\u201cWe look forward to the government implementing these initiatives,\u201d Parker said.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) has welcomed the government\u2019s announcement of increased funding for disease surveillance as part of a $137.8 million investment in biosecurity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[578,1726,1090,1876,113,1805],"class_list":["post-2369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ava","tag-biosecurity","tag-disease-control","tag-government-funding","tag-news-2","tag-paula-parker"],"rise-blocks_total_comments":0,"rise-blocks_categories":[{"term_id":5,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":402,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":5,"category_count":402,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"rise-blocks_excerpt":"The Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) has welcomed the government\u2019s announcement of increased funding for disease surveillance as part of a $137.8 million investment in biosecurity.","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"5":{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?cat=5"}},"tags_names":{"578":{"name":"AVA","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?tag=ava"},"1726":{"name":"biosecurity","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?tag=biosecurity"},"1090":{"name":"disease control","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?tag=disease-control"},"1876":{"name":"government funding","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?tag=government-funding"},"113":{"name":"news","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?tag=news-2"},"1805":{"name":"Paula Parker","link":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/?tag=paula-parker"}},"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theveterinarian.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}