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Brucellosis... successfully eradicated?(Farming Life)
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Byline: DAVID IRWIN, Divisional Veterinary Officer, DARD
YOUNGER members of the farming community could be forgiven for thinking that brucellosis is a new disease.
Yes, the Department has been blood-testing for the disease for as long as most of us can remember, but was there really any brucellosis in Northern Ireland prior to the upsurge we have seen over the past five or six years?
Those who have been in the industry longer know better. They reme...
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