Botulism — United Kingdom
[A farmer] likened the scenes in his shed to those of a horror film, with cows quickly being paralysed, as the disease, which attacks the nervous system, took hold.
[Another farmer] from Clitheroe, Lancashire, 1st saw signs of the disease on a routine lunchtime check of the herd, predominantly Holstein-Friesians, and found one cow dead in the passageway.
He said: “Another cow was floppy and weak. I rang the vet who came to do a post-mortem, and in that time another 2 had fallen.
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