[decimon]

Day with the animals ping.

[dfwgator]

They cracked the Bulldog Code yesterday.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** Characterized by chronic respiratory illness and fever, brucellosis is acquired by eating infected meat..***

Cattle with brucellosis are perfectly safe to eat. Cattle that “bang out” are branded on the jaw with a B and sent to slaughter for meat.

[grey_whiskers]

All Creatures Great And Small author James Herriot wrote the following of Brucellosis:

The effects on many of my fellow vets were wide and varied. One big fat chap faded away to a skeleton with undulant fever and was ill for years, others developed crippling arthritis and some went down with psychiatric conditions. One man wrote in The Veterinary Record that as part of his own syndrome he came home one night and decided it would be a good idea to murder his wife. He never got round to actually doing it, but recorded the impulse as an interesting example of what Brucella abortus could do to a man.

Full Disclosure: I just found out while looking for the quote that "James Herriot" was a nom-de-plume for Alf Wight.

Cheers!

[marsh2]

Wild buffalo have it in the US. This is one reason why ranchers are concerned when they move over the boundary at Yellowstone. Also concerned when they talk about relocating surplus herd members throughout the west. Brucellosis could transfer to domestic cattle herds.