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12/17/2008
North Dakota`s Board of Animal Health North Dakota Won`t Lift Import Restrictions on Minnesota Cattlediscussed the state`s import restrictions on on Minnesota cattle today but made no move to lift them.

Producers and state officials are worried that importing Minnesota cattle could harm North Dakota`s 32-year tuberculosis-free status.

The board imposed the restrictions in February because of bovine TB in northwestern Minnesota.

Two months ago, the federal government granted Minnesota "split state status" for bovine TB. It lessened testing requirements for all cattle producers in the state except those in parts of four northwestern counties where the disease has been found in cattle and wild deer.

North Dakota animal health board member Dick Roth, a Fargo veterinarian, says he might support Minnesota`s split state status if the boundaries were expanded and more testing was done.

Minnesota state veterinarian Bill Hartmann says his state sees no need to expand the boundaries beyond where the disease has been found.


And yet OT doesn't think sovereign countries should be able to protect them selves from contagious disease. :roll:
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