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Ireland declared brucellosis free!

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  • 08-07-2009 1:21am
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    irish_ninja
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    So Ireland is now totally free of this disease.Does anyone think they will now cut the test for it in factories and save us a bit if money...anyone?
    Also does anyone know if this is the republic or the north aswell?
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    squarebale
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    still endemic in the North. Major threat to our status!


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    irish_bob
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    irish_ninja wrote: »
    So Ireland is now totally free of this disease.Does anyone think they will now cut the test for it in factories and save us a bit if money...anyone?
    Also does anyone know if this is the republic or the north aswell?

    hopefully this will end the nonesense that is having to blood test a cow every 30 days if you want to sell her , it was nothing but a money making racket for the vets


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    squarebale
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    Neighbour with fevers every now and again and depression for the last 30 years. Not sure he'd agree with your simplistic views.


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    irish_bob
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    squarebale wrote: »
    Neighbour with fevers every now and again and depression for the last 30 years. Not sure he'd agree with your simplistic views.

    what has vets making handy money got to do with your neighbours ill health


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    squarebale
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    He has brucellosis


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    irish_ninja
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    30 years is a long time.It was necessary for tests back then when it was around but now its gone do we really need to pay vets to keeps testing for it regularly and just have spot tests or mabye just test imported cattle.


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    irish_bob
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    squarebale wrote: »
    He has brucellosis

    the question remains


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    squarebale
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    In the late eighties we were declared or about to be declared brucellosis free. The IFA lobbied the minister to stop testing and the minister reduced pre-movement testing and herd testing against the advice of his officials.. 10 years later Brucellosis was raging. If we stick with the testing for a couple of years we'll rid the country of it for good (if Northern Ireland do). It's a horrible disease, can remain unidentifiable in an animal for years (untill she calves or aborts again), is highly contagious at calving, infects humans and causes huge economic loss in affected herds. Pre-movement testing is a core element in control. Most of the spread in the nineties was through dealers. In one dealers shed where a cow calved 7 herds got it, two from slurry spread, 1 from a man visiting the shed andthe rest fromcattle bought. 2 men got it (and may have it for the rest of their lives). If the question still remains God help your logic. 30 day testing is being changed in the back end to 60 day testing according to last weeks Journal.


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    pakalasa
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    ..and what's going on also is the "swapping of tags" which helps spread the disease. Individuals not wanting to test, so just switch with a cow that is still "In Test". I've heard 2 second-hand accounts of it recently, so it is still going on.


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    djmc
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    pakalasa wrote: »
    ..and what's going on also is the "swapping of tags" which helps spread the disease. Individuals not wanting to test, so just switch with a cow that is still "In Test". I've heard 2 second-hand accounts of it recently, so it is still going on.

    does not make sence test is for only 30 days it would be better to test the cow u want to sell than the one u dont and risk looseing SFP and going to court for swaping tags


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    irish_bob
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    look at it this way , you are obliged to TB test at least once a year , once you do this you are free to sell your animals providing they are tb free of course but with brucelosis , you have to have a female over the age of 12 months blooded within the previous 30 days if you wish to sell her , this despite th fact that brucelosis is much less common than tb , the reality is the 30 day rule was put in place due to lobbying of the dept by vets


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