Sunday, 28th February 2016, Ministry of Agriculture issued a resolution banning living shrimp import from Australia due AHPND. 
The animal and plant quarantine management in Ministry of Agriculture assured that banning came based on the warning report of OIE: World Organization for Anima Health including the appearance of AHPND in the Australian shrimp. 
AHPND , called also EMS, is considered one of the diseases forming a high risk against shrimp aquaculture in the world. The first cases of the disease were recorded in China in 2010. Consequently, it was recorded in a set of countries including Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand. It appeared in Mexico in 2013. The real reason for this disease was not known until 2013 in the United States of America in the laboratories of Arizona University by the expert of shrimp Dr. Donald Lightner who discovered the pathogen 
V. parahaemolyticus.
Banning the import is considered a procedure followed in biosecurity to prevent the spread of diseases among countries and so affecting shrimp production farms.