Researchers hope breakthrough will lead to better test for bovine tuberculosis
Researchers say they are developing a test for bovine tuberculosis they hope could someday spare ranchers and governments from costly quarantines and mass slaughters of cattle.
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico say they have made a breakthrough that could lead to a quick blood test for the infectious disease.
Harshini Mukundan, leader of the lab’s biomedical applications team, said they came up with the idea after speaking with local ranchers.
“It is kind of incredible that when one cow is potentially infected the whole herd may have to be culled,” she said.