Ok, here is your link:
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/051605_APlocal_ship.html
Not enough info, let's check these links:
http://www.newscientist.com
http://www.sciencedaily.com
This is interesting, but not related to your story:
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/bird-flu
Nothing related to your story in those links.
http://www.click2houston.com/news/4495288/detail.html
Article snippet: "At 1 p.m., a ship arrived in Houston from China with an illegal rice-straw packing material that has the potential of carrying diseases, according to authorities."
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp%3FS%3D3352342
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=%22in+rice+straw%22&kgs=0&kls=0
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=%22rice+straw%22&kgs=0&kls=0
Here's a little pest that shipped in to Chicago from China, burrowed into wood pallets, that devestated a few neighborhoods worth of trees, with an affinity for Silver Maples. I had Forestry Dept. inspectors out again in early Spring checking to see if there were any new hatches. $$MILLIONS$$ have been spent here in Chicago due to this.
Ugly buggers at that.