Foot-and-mouth disease: What can you do to avoid being part of the FMD problem

An Australian biosecurity announcement on a recent international flight. (ABC Rural: Clint Jasper)

Foot-and-mouth disease is on our doorstep. Right now, it is spreading across livestock in Bali and throughout Indonesia. If it gets to Australia, the consequences would be devastating. 

In the worst-case scenario, billions would have to be spent on a national response and scores of painfully diseased cattle, sheep, pigs and goats could be culled.