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Mycobacterium bovis is a slow-growing (16- to 20-hour generation time) aerobic bacterium and the causative agent of tuberculosis in cattle (known as bovine TB). It is related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis , the bacterium which causes tuberculosis in humans.
The Uniform methods and rules are documents by the Veterinary Services office of USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) that specify the minimum standards for preventing, detecting, controlling, and/or eradicating a particular animal disease. APHIS in late 2004 had UM&Rs posted on bovine tuberculosis eradication, brucellosis ...
This subchapter, titled "Cooperative Control and Eradication of Livestock or Poultry," lists additional rules of procedure, as well as guidelines and restrictions regarding animal destruction due to Tuberculosis, Brucellosis, Pseudorabies, Foot-and-mouth disease, Rinderpest, Pleuropneumonia, and other communicable diseases.
Defra said the Government’s strategy to control the disease, with intensive and supplementary culling, had seen new bovine TB cases at a near 20-year low.
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Montana recorded its first confirmed case of bovine tuberculosis in more than 50 years in a beef herd in Blaine County, the state veterinarian confirmed.
Multiple US agencies rolled out new public health rules as a result of the TB spread: the CDC brought in new guidelines mandating HEPA filters and HEPA respirators, [127] NIOSH pushed through new 42 CFR 84 respirator regulations in 1995 (like the N95), [128] and OSHA created a proposed rule for TB in 1997, a result of pressure from groups like ...
After compensation, a TB outbreak costs the farmer a median £6,600. [7] As of 2024, the United Kingdom has culled 210,000 badgers at a cost of £58.8 million. [4] In the same period, it culled 330,000 cattle. [8] Bovine TB compensation paid to farmers costs the UK taxpayer around £150 million per annum. [9]