Heffernan raises 'superbug' concerns

Colin Bettles
Updated December 1 2015 - 4:27am, first published 4:00am
NSW Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan.
NSW Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan.

SENIOR agricultural bureaucrats have been told to investigate whether Australia is under threat from a new “super, superbug” that’s believed to have started in China’s intensive poultry industry and could be spreading globally.

Colin Bettles

Colin Bettles

National political writer

National political writer for Fairfax Agricultural Media.

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