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Bovine TB test improvements fall through the cracks

Canada’s monitoring regimen for bovine tuberculosis is based on tests that are old, time consuming and not overly accurate, researchers say. But there aren’t any better options. “We don’t have a better test for humans either,” said one researcher, Shu-Hua Wang. Wang is a professor of medicine at Ohio State University and director of research and implementation science with the Global One Health Initiative. She’s one of several scientists working on better, faster tests for TB in both humans and animals.

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