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Defra has imposed precautionary movement restrictions on a farm in Derbyshire following a high number of brucella test failures.
A number of reactors have been identified in the dairy herd following a herd blood test and a routine test on milk samples. Samples from reactors are undergoing cultural examination.
Veterinary advice was that four of the reactors should be culled. Slaughter of the four, with compensation, has now been carried out and further testing will be done on lymph nodes...
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Chief Veterinary Officer, Bert Houston, has confirmed to Farming Life that the Department of Agriculture and Northern Ireland will undertake to carry out all premovement Brucellosis testing within five working days of laboratory staff receiving blood samples.
"This is solely on the basis of no problems being identified and has no bearing on any delays or hold-ups that may occur in getting the samples submitted in the first instance," he said.
The chief vet also stressed that animals would...
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With pre-movement brucellosis testing for bovine breeding animals over 12 months of age becoming compulsory from today, the Ulster Farmers' Union says it will be telling Government that test results must be with farmers as soon as possible.
Farmers will have 30 days from the date a test is taken, to move their animals, but the Union says the 30 days concept will be undermined if there are significant delays before producers receive their results.
The Union says this will unnecessarily add...
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Government proposals to value TB reactors using a category card system based on average GB market prices, have been rejected as unfair by the industry.
Farmers claim the system will turn disease compensation into a lottery with some animals undervalued and others overvalued.
Pay-outs - for bovine TB, brucellosis, BSE and enzootic bovine leukosis - will depend on the animal's age, sex, pedigree status and sector.
Similar plans were put forward for consultation last year but there are...
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is amending its brucellosis regulations. This amendment will add the fluorescence polarization assay (FPA) to the list of approved brucellosis tests in cattle, bison and swine, according to an APHIS news release.
APHIS has determined that a rapid diagnostic detection test that uses fluorescence polarization technology will be highly useful in detecting the presence of Brucella antibodies.
A technician...
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Test contamination is now the leading theory why positive results for brucellosis came back for two Campbell County cows last summer.
The testing was done at a state laboratory in Brookings, S.D. But follow-up tests, including tests of other cattle in the herd and neighboring herds, have turned up no sign of brucellosis in northeast Wyoming.
South Dakota state veterinarian Sam Holland said Monday that analysis of DNA from the brucellosis bacteria from the Campbell County cows matched...
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The meeting wasn't to start for another half-hour, but already a group of ranchers had gathered outside the extension office.
Leaning against their trucks, they commiserated about the implications of two brucellosis cases reported in Campbell County.
The meeting Thursday night was organized by state and federal officials to address concerns about the impact of the disease.
"There's no need for overreacting and pointing fingers," State Veterinarian Jim Logan said. "We want to get...
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Brucellosis is primarily a livestock disease, but many elk and bison in western Wyoming are believed to be infected with the disease. The Greater Yellowstone Area contains the nation's last large reservoir of the disease.
Brucellosis can cause cows to abort their first calf and in rare instances can cause undulant fever in humans who drink unpasteurized milk or dairy products.
The disease is transmitted among wildlife and to cattle through the ingestion of fetal fluids and other birth...
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The farming industry this week breathed a sigh of relief as the all clear was given following a case of brucellosis in Cornwall. It was confirmed in a breeding herd of beef cattle near Liskeard in March.
The herd was slaughtered to prevent any spread of the notifiable disease.
Detailed investigations of possible routes of infection into the herd have since been carried out, with surveillance by the State Veterinary Service (SVS) and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) on behalf of...
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Do we need to consider vaccination for brucellosis into our herd even if we do not have any problem regarding that disease? We do not have any sample in our herd but I have about 200 replacement dairy heifer and someone suggested I should vaccinate them with the new brucellosis vaccine. Could anybody please advise me if I should introduce this vaccine? (I have local crossbred Friesian Sahiwal)
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