In short, cows that graze with with buffalos will not get it - the buffalo would have to
mount the cow (or a bull, the buffalo cow). That's how it's transmitted. So if there's no
cross breeding, why kill them? (For that matter, why were so many killed and left to rot
by passengers riding in the first transcontinental trains? Does history tend to repeat
itself? Does karma exist and exert a force? Is the devil at work? What is this garbage)?
DH - nothing more follows (you want more)?
On 13/05/99 at 1:31 PM Michele Gale-Sinex/CIAS, UW-Madison wrote:
>Thought this might interest some of you.
>
>A federal appeals court refused Thursday to stop Montana from
>slaughtering bison outside Yellowstone National Park to prevent the
>animals from infecting cattle with brucellosis, a serious livestock
>disease. Bison leave Yellowstone in search of winter forage. About
>half test positive for brucellosis, a disease that can cause cows to
>abort and, in rare cases, can spread to humans and cause a recurring
>fever.
>
>In a one-sentence ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
>upheld a federal judge's decision allowing the state and the National
>Park Service to continue killing bison as they have for the last 3
>winters.
>
>More than 1200 bison that left Yellowstone have been shot or shipped
>to slaughter in the last 3 years, mostly in the winter of 1996-97.
>
>Environmental groups challenging the plan contended there was no
>evidence the disease could spread from Yellowstone bison to cattle
>grazing on neighboring land. Also, they contended the slaughter
>conflicts with the designated role of the park as a wildlife
>sanctuary.
>
>John Bloomquist, the state's lawyer, told the court in a hearing
>last month that the state's stringent measures for controlling
>brucellosis have protected the cattle industry.
>
>Justice Department lawyer Andrew Mergen said at the same hearing
>brucellosis, target of a $1 billion government eradication program,
>has been eliminated virtually everywhere but among Yellowstone
>bison.
>
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