Tick-borne disease — United States
The cause of the 7 cows’ deaths wasn’t immediately clear. All of the animals died between late summer and fall of 2017 in Albemarle County, the prosperous, semi-agricultural county that surrounds the city of Charlottesville. Another cow on the property, sick but alive, was found with signs of anemia, weakness, and respiratory distress.
Fearing the deaths were a sign of a new foreign animal disease, the US Department of Agriculture came to Albemarle to investigate and found that 6 other
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