![]() ![]() The rules of these schemes have kept herds free of CAE for over 30 years.ĬAE is only notifiable in Victoria but should be notifiable in all states so progress towards eradication can be documented. ![]() ![]() New South Wales, Queensland, and Tasmania have government-run CAE accreditation schemes and South Australia has a dairy goat breeder organisation scheme. CAE in dairy and miniature goats is a risk to these larger goat industries. Levels of CAE are low in Australia’s meat and fibre goats and serological surveys done in feral goats in the 1970s and 1980s showed no positives.Australia runs the risk of being overtaken as an exporter of quality goats if it cannot guarantee freedom from CAE.The Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) guidelines only requires one negative test on the animal being exported, rather than coming from a tested negative herd. Unfortunately, it is also being spread into underdeveloped countries such as Malaysia and Brazil with the importation of mainly dairy goats. Globally CAE is being eradicated in some countries such as Norway or reduced to very low levels e.g.The New Zealand Dairy Goat Cooperative has given their suppliers a date by which they must have eradicated CAE from their herds to continue supplying milk. Consumers could become concerned about the presence of this virus in goats’ milk and other goat products. Children overseas given raw goats milk from CAE positive goats developed antibodies to CAE. CAE is in the same family of viruses like HIV/AIDS.CAE could jump species into sheep and possibly cause Maedi-Visna, and thereby eliminating Australia’s Maedi-Visna free status.There is no treatment except for pain relief for arthritis, and there are strong animal welfare reasons for eradication. More rarely, nervous disease, pneumonia or mastitis. CAE causes debilitating arthritis and wasting.If not, there are many things that can be done to improve biosecurity to keep it out of the goat herd. If it is present, we need to aim to eradicate it. Goat owners in Australia should contact their veterinarian to test for it. ![]()
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