Effectiveness of Quarantine in preventing animal & plant diseases in Australia.

Question 1

How effective is quarantine?

Answer 1

Very effective as it prevented many diseases from entering Australia.

Question 2

What is Foot & Mouth disease (animal disease)?

Answer 2

Highly contagious muscle wasting disease found in hooved animals.
It is prevented from coming into Aus.

Question 3

What are the symptoms of foot & mouth disease?

Answer 3

Dribbling, lethargy and blisters all over the body.

Question 4

What is foot & mouth disease caused by?

Answer 4

Airborne Virus

Question 5

How is foot & mouth disease spread?

Answer 5

Spread through carcass soil and equipment.

Question 6

What is sorghum downy mildew (plant disease)?

Answer 6

When the fungus inhibits the production of chlorophyll of plants which causes its death.

Question 7

What is sorghum downy mildew caused by?

Answer 7

Fungus.

Question 8

Has quarantine restricted the spread of fruit flies across states?

Answer 8

Quarantine measures have been put in place to forbid the movement of fruits across states, thus controlling the spread of the disease.

Question 9

What do fruit flies do?

Answer 9

They cause damage to fruit crops.

Question 10

Do all states have fruit flies?

Answer 10

Some states do, but some don’t. The states which don’t have flies, have quarantine measures against it.