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Ind. deer free of bovine TB
Updated: Monday, 23 Apr 2012, 9:20 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 23 Apr 2012, 9:20 AM EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- State officials have given Indiana's deer populations a clean bill of health for the third straight year for a disease that can spread to cattle.
State and federal workers collected 366 tissue samples from wild, free-ranging deer killed last fall by Indiana hunters and all of those tested negative for bovine tuberculosis.
The State Board of Animal Health said more than 900 free-ranging deer have been tested for the disease over the past three years as part of a monitoring effort and no positives have been found.
A beef cattle herd was euthanized in southeastern Indiana's Dearborn County last year after testing positive for bovine tuberculosis in the first such case in the state in more than three decades. Tuberculosis causes severe coughing, fatigue, emaciation and debilitation in cattle.
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