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Outbreaks, quarantines, and biosecurity.
4 stories
One is a venereal disease that turns a 92 percent conception rate into 60 and has no treatment. The other is a virus carried by a calf that looks normal and sheds it to every animal it stands next to. Both are found with a cheap test at the chute. Who to test, when, and what to do with a positive.
Oct 19
Eighty-five cattle herds confirmed this year, fresh poultry outbreaks in South Dakota, and a virus that has been circulating in U.S. dairy cows since March 2024. The biosecurity conversation is not over.
Sep 10
Detections climb every fall as wild waterfowl migrate. Indiana has already logged 20 infected flocks this year, and Europe found the first antibody-positive dairy cow outside the U.S. What to tighten before the ponds fill up.
Sep 9
No new U.S. detections since the Zavala County calf in June. USDA reopened one Arizona port on August 24 under a joint protocol with Mexico, with two New Mexico ports to follow. Where the sterile fly supply stands.
Sep 4