Within Australia, the psycho-social impacts of Ovine Johne's disease have been reported [12, 8] in which grief, depression, and anxiety were profound in affected farming families, and the perceptions of the management control process were the cause of much of the distress. Government policies on quarantining and de-stocking farms were suspended due to mounting reports of severe emotional and social distress in farmers, rural families, and government employees implementing those policies. Further discussion of stress in emergency responders managing agricultural emergencies is considered in an Australian context in a recent paper by Jenner [13] .