Health and animal experts are striving to create awareness about bovine tuberculosis in domestic cattle and wild ruminant populations.

Ranchers could soon be spared from costly TB quarantines and culling thanks to a research breakthrough allowing the first direct, empirical, blood-based, cow-side test for diagnosing bovine TB (tuberculosis). “We have adapted an assay originally developed for human TB to bovine TB, a particular challenge because the bovine disease is caused by a different species […]