An atypical case of BSE was detected in a six year-old Florida beef cow, but never entered the slaughter channels and poses no threat to the U.S. food supply.
Salmonella Heidelberg is a multi-drug-resistant Salmonella species that can cause severe illness in calves and humans, and is transmittable between the two.
Modified live vaccines can be effective in building immunity in cattle, because they stimulate an immune response to a variation of disease-causing organisms. But those live organisms can be touchy and temperamental.
Anaplasma marginale is an organism that lives in red blood cells and causes the only major “tick-borne” disease in the U.S. affecting cattle production.
Officials have confirmed a first case of a rare strain of bovine tuberculosis in the U.S. after seven cows in North Dakota tested positive for the disease.
Researchers at UC-Davis have developed a handy, easy-to-use diagnostic tool to streamline monitoring of calves for respiratory disease, so they can be detected and cared for early in the disease process.
Although March weather was more reminiscent of February than of spring, this is the time of year when farmers haul the corn planter out of the shed in preparation for planting.
Severe illness and death losses in young dairy bull calves due to Salmonella heidelberg became more commonly recognized in many Midwestern states, including South Dakota.
