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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

1965

Disease control

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Remarkable Success Of Bovine T.B. Eradication Campaign, J Shilkin Jan 1965

Remarkable Success Of Bovine T.B. Eradication Campaign, J Shilkin

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Less than 20 years ago Perth dairy herds had the highest T.B. incidence of any Australian capital city and half of the Kalgoorlie cattle had the disease.

Why this was so and how the eradication campaign has reduced the incidence of less than 0.3 per cent, in 128,000 cattle is discussed in this article.

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