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Beef Producers eyes wild game surveillance amid bovine TB testing

Manitoba Beef Producers says the province should reinstate testing of wild game for bovine TB as a precaution, while testing continues on a Manitoba cattle herd. Two Manitoba herds were connected to cases of bovine tuberculosis found in Saskatchewan earlier this year. Testing is complete on one of those herds, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a statement sent to the Co-operator Oct. 23. At the time of the email, the second herd was still being tested.

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