Show TB infection now that tuberculosis in cattle has been reduced to a small fraction of I 1 per cent as a result of the systematic federal state campaign of 1 eradication veterinary officials are concerned about the danger of tu free herds becoming re infected one way that this can happen Is from persons who have tuberculosis bercu losis present evidence indicates dr A W wight who directs tuberculosis eradication in livestock for the federal bureau of animal industry cites a case recorded in veterinary literature and supported by detailed records in which four herds of cattle were infected by one person because of this danger he urges close cooperation between public health officials and veterinarians engaged in bovine tuberculosis eradication domn cases of pulmonary tuberculosis he explains are caused by the bovine type of tho the germ and this type can readily infect cattle knowledge of the kind i of tuberculosis a human patient has Is helpful to veterinarians in trac j lang ing the source of infection when i healthy c ittle cattle in the locality become tubercular |