Tag Archive for PRO/AH/EDR> Botulism, bovine – UK: England (LA)
PRO/AH/EDR> Botulism, bovine – UK: England (LA)
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."In Read more [...]
