Riyadh, Jumada I 19, 1437, Feb 28, 2016, SPA -- The Ministry of Agriculture has temporarily banned importation of live shrimp from Australia due to the disease of liver pancreas inflammation (Hepatopancreatitis in Prawns). This was announced by the Ministry's Deputy Director General of Animal and Plant Quarantine Department, Ibrahim bin Abdullah Al-Rashid, who said that the ban was based on what has been published in the alert bulletin from the World Organization for Animal Health regarding this disease. --SPA 16:05 LOCAL TIME 13:05 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w