Fatal illness detected in another Michigan cattle herd – KCRG

LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Officers utter a runt red meat cattle herd in northern Michigan has been infected with bovine tuberculosis.

The convey Department of Agriculture and Rural Pattern says the herd was once in Alpena County, which is section of an convey within the northern Decrease Peninsula the build the deadly illness is regularly expose in whitetail deer. Contact with deer is believed to be a standard manner of transmitting the illness to cattle.

The infection was once detected thru routine checking out. It was once the 74th cattle herd stumbled on to hold the illness since 1998.

An investigation is planned to name and test other herds that had an association with the infected one.