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Show Cattle Get Tuberculosis From People or Poultry An animal which reacts to the tuberculin tu-berculin test is a potential source of danger, Dr. R. R. Dykstra, dean of the veterinary division of the Kansas State Agricultural college says. Oftentimes, Often-times, although the post mortem examination ex-amination will not show the presence of the disease, it is actually there. Human beings may carry tuberculosis tubercu-losis to cattle, as will poultry, Doctor Dykstra explained. A cow which has the avain or poultry tuberculosis is not seriously harmed but the test will nevertheless show the disease to be present. "This question always comes up," he remarked. "Is the meat of- a tubercular tu-bercular animal ever sold? If the case is a light one, the meat will be sold for food, because the germs in this case are isolated in one part of the body and are of no danger, but if the disease is spread through the system, the meat is not sold for human hu-man consumption, but is made into tankage. The germs do no harm in the tankage because the steam used in its manufacture kills them." |