The Ontario Cattlemen’s Association is monitoring the April discovery of bovine tuberculosis in two beef herds in Michigan.
“At this point we’ve had no calls or concerns but we will be watching it,” says LeaAnne Hodgins, the association’s communications manager.
Lance Males, a New Liskeard veterinarian and president of the Ontario Association of Bovine Practitioners, says his organization hasn’t received notification from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency that Ontario herds are at risk. “They would notify us if there’s a concern,” says Males.
According to the agency’s website, there were no findings of the disease in Canada as of March 31. The last outbreak in Ontario was in a dairy cattle herd in Peterborough County in 2002. More
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