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PUREBRED DEXTER CATTLE ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Minnesota trying to contain bovine tuberculosis outbreak

by Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio

Roger Skime walks among his cattle before they're loaded on trucks to be taken to a slaughterhouse. (MPR Photo/Dan Gunderson)

'Minnesota officials are trying to contain an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis. There are 18 cattle herds in Minnesota under quarantine. The disease was first found this spring in a Roseau county herd. Those animals are being slaughtered to help contain the disease. But local ranchers and some state officials worry the disease has spread beyond cattle herds. This fall the DNR will test for infected whitetail deer.'

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