Brucellosis
I have been watching the reports out of Wyoming about Brucellosis since it was first reported in the Billings Gazette. The first question I asked myself was if this herd was vaccinated? Well this report this morning shows that it is a vaccinated herd that has been struck with this disease. This is going to be a very troubling to many people in the cattle industry including me. I always vaccinate my cattle for brucellosis assuming it will give my cattle immunity. Yea I intellectually know that know no vaccine is 100% effective but I hoping that it was a little more effective that the 70% quoted in the article. Then this whole situation is going to ignite the whole brucellosis in the Yellowstone Park elk and bison herds and might this be where the infection comes from. It is going to be interesting to see where this all leads since there isn’t much a person could do about it.
What is not mentioned though in the news article are how this mans neighbors are being affected by this. Their herds, I am sure, are being quarantined too and they are having to get Their cattle in and test them too. My sympathy goes out to them and to the owner of the herd infected since he took reasonable precautions against this problem by vaccinating his herd and apparently this was partially ineffective for him.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
I have been watching the reports out of Wyoming about Brucellosis since it was first reported in the Billings Gazette. The first question I asked myself was if this herd was vaccinated? Well this report this morning shows that it is a vaccinated herd that has been struck with this disease. This is going to be a very troubling to many people in the cattle industry including me. I always vaccinate my cattle for brucellosis assuming it will give my cattle immunity. Yea I intellectually know that know no vaccine is 100% effective but I hoping that it was a little more effective that the 70% quoted in the article. Then this whole situation is going to ignite the whole brucellosis in the Yellowstone Park elk and bison herds and might this be where the infection comes from. It is going to be interesting to see where this all leads since there isn’t much a person could do about it.
What is not mentioned though in the news article are how this mans neighbors are being affected by this. Their herds, I am sure, are being quarantined too and they are having to get Their cattle in and test them too. My sympathy goes out to them and to the owner of the herd infected since he took reasonable precautions against this problem by vaccinating his herd and apparently this was partially ineffective for him.
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
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