mag
26-5-2005, 09:00 pm
The United States is banning cattle imports from Durango, Mexico, because it lacks adequate safeguards against bovine tuberculosis, this comes on the back of the BSE case in the US and Canada that has so far cost cattle producers billions of dollars in lost revenue.
A hunter in Michigan was diagnosed with bovine TB in January after cutting his hand when he was gutting an infected deer. The disease is highly contagious among animals - so it is already in the US.
A hunter in Michigan was diagnosed with bovine TB in January after cutting his hand when he was gutting an infected deer. The disease is highly contagious among animals - so it is already in the US.