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Food inspection officials to cull B.C. and Alta. cattle in bovine TB scare6 hours ago

VANCOUVER - The discovery of bovine tuberculosis in a bull will force the slaughter of 470 cattle and has resulted in the quarantine of almost 30 farms in B.C. and Alberta.

The problem became widespread because the Vanderhoof, B.C. farmer who owned the infected bull downsized over the summer, selling almost 400 head of cattle at an auction in Innisfail, Alta., to 22 other farms.

Seven farms in B.C., including the one where the bull was born, have also been quarantined.

"This farm underwent a major dispersal of animals just at the time of this infection being determined," said Maria Koller-Jones of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. "So yes, it has cast a much wider net."

Koller-Jones said all the animals sold at auction and the 70 cattle that remain on the Vanderhoof farm will be slaughtered and tested.

She said only if another animal tests positive for TB will the agency take action on one or more of the quarantined farms.

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