Thursday, March 12, 2009

Bovine Tuberculosis

Bovine Tuberculosis rates are increasing in Northern Michigan deer herds. Michigan Department of Natural Resources said that 1.8 percent of deer tested in 2008 were infected with Bovine TB up from 1.4 percent in 2007.

The Bovine Tuberculosis outbreak among deer populations in Michigan began in the
1990’s. Since then the DNR has attempted too contain the outbreak with little luck.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Can spread quickly. Dont want it to spread to domestic animals.