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Here is another drawback of shipping cattle back and forth across borders....It will be interesting to find out if this is the same Mexican strain that has been being found in the majority of all positive cattle in the US...
Maybe ND is close enough for some Canadians to realize that some of the NAFTA needs changing to stop this stuff from coming in from its source :???: ....
Maybe ND is close enough for some Canadians to realize that some of the NAFTA needs changing to stop this stuff from coming in from its source :???: ....
North Dakota beef herd being tested for bovine TB
The Jamestown Sun
Published Friday, December 05, 2008
A North Dakota beef herd is being tested for bovine tuberculosis, following the identification of a cow with a TB lesion at a Minnesota meat processing plant.
“We are in the early stages of the investigation, and complete results of the herd tests won’t be known for several weeks,” said Dr. Susan Keller, state veterinarian, on Friday.
Keller said that a suspect lesion on the animal was detected through routine inspection at a processing plant in Long Prairie, Minn., and that pathological tests at the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, confirmed the diagnosis of bovine TB. A traceback determined that the animal came from a livestock operation in southwestern North Dakota.
North Dakota has been officially TB-free since Jan. 1, 1976. Under federal guidelines, that status remains in effect. The last time a North Dakota herd tested positive for the disease was in 1999 in Morton County.
A chronic bacterial disease that affects primarily cattle, bovine TB can be transmitted to any warm-blooded animal. In its early stages, clinical signs are not visible, making diagnosis difficult. Later symptoms may include low-grade fever, lethargy, emaciation, anorexia, pneumonia, chronic coughing and lymph node enlargement.
More information about bovine TB is available at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/pubs/fsheet_faq_notice/fs_ahtb.html.
http://www.jamestownsun.com/articles/index.cfm?id=76438§ion=news