BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 35, 10 August 1936, Page 5

BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS

Writing on May 29,. "The Post's" Lonflon correspondent notes that the Ulster Minister of Agriculture 'has been speaking ■in terms of high, hope on the results of the Spahlinger .vaccine for the control of .bovine tuberculosis. He said the vaccine had conferred a high degree of immunity against a lethal dose of tubercle injected into the blood stream, and at least an equally high degree of immunity against intense natural infection during a period of two years. In his view such highly satisfactory results raise the question oil compulsory vaccination as a means of eradicating tuberculosis from- Ulster herds. Experiments, and tests are still being conducted. "It will take time,.and it is essential' to keep an open mind, but if success follows it is obvious that all British attitudes to this problem will undergo a profound change," comments the "Dumfries Standard." "Present methods are costly and often very disappointing. The medical attitude to tuberculintested milk is anything but static, while the new general demand that T.T. milk for sale in large centres of population must also be pasteurised clearly takes away a large measure of the reward which producers of this grade have so laboriously earned. The future is cloudy and uncertain, and if science offers a more rational and practical way to the same end, so much the better."