TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE
Big Reduction In Incidence
(From Our Own Reporter) HAMILTON, June 16. The incidence of tuberculosis in town milk supply herds had been reduced from 10.7 per cent, at the initial test to between 2 per cent, and 3 per cent., Dr. S. Jamieson, chief advisory officer (infectious diseases control) of the Department of Agriculture, told the Ruakura farmers’ conference today.
“This is good progress by anyone’s reckoning,” he said.
Dr. Jamieson said. 70 per cent, of town supply herds were now under repeat testing and about three-quarters of these had had two clear consecutive annual tests.
”We can say with a good deal of confidence that these herds are free from bovine tuberculosis,” he said. In New Zealand, it did not seem as difficult to keep these herds free from reinfection as it was in the United Kingdom at the same stage of the eradication programme. Bovine tuberculosis in cattle In the South Island. Dr. Jamieson said, was most noticeable by its absence.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29233, 17 June 1960, Page 14
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