disease

In the News | Published: 06 December 201811 February 2019

Thousands of families have been queuing up at vaccination stations in Northland as a mass immunisation programme against meningococcal W gets […]

In the News | Published: 29 March 201805 July 2018

Over 22,000 cattle will be culled in an effort to prevent further spread of the disease Mycoplasma bovis. Minister for […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 27 July 201703 August 2018

MPI is responding to the discovery of a cattle disease on a South Canterbury farm. Mycoplasma bovis is common internationally but this is the […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 19 May 201619 May 2016

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that there is a “low to moderate” risk of of a Zika virus […]

In the News | Published: 22 November 201004 July 2011

Both local and national eyes are closely trained on kiwifruit orchards in New Zealand, with the news that some have […]

Blog | Published: 12 November 2010

Scientists battle bacterial disease A week on from the discovery of the PSA bacterial disease in an orchard in the […]

In the News | Published: 16 April 201016 April 2010

Kiran Chug writes in the Dominion Post about concerns over whether Sirocco the kakapo should be allowed to continue his […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 30 November 200930 November 2009

Last Friday, Professor John Hamilton, from the University of Melbourne, gave a great talk entitled “Colony stimulating factors, macrophages and […]