Description of Bovine Tuberculosis: Bovine tuberculosis (bovine Tb) is a disease found in mammals caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis). In North America, bovine Tb is most commonly ...

What do a cow, a deer, and a hunter have in common? The answer in certain parts of Michigan may be Mycobacterium bovis, the bacteria that causes bovine tuberculosis, if hunters are not careful.

Heads up, hunters: You can potentially contract tuberculosis from deer infected with the bacterial disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced. A 77-year-old ...

Cook deer meat to at least 165 degrees to kill tuberculosis bacteria and other pathogens. The CDC didn't go so far as to recommend wearing a mask, however, during the field-dressing process.

In 2017, a 77-year-old man in Michigan developed pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Deer we say how he got it? The case became a MMWR Case Report since humans getting M. bovis infections from deer still ...

Jeana-Dee Allen | The Flint Journal"You can confine the cattle, but you can't confine the deer," says Zoe Moritz of Bancroft about trying to protect her herd from contracting tuberculosis. Moritz ...

Since 1995, Michigan has been testing white-tailed deer for bovine tuberculosis year-round. Michigan has the longest- running continuous wildlife TB surveillance program in the world.

Michigan has the only persisting bovine tuberculosis outbreak in wild deer anywhere in the U.S. — and it occasionally spills over to cattle farms.

Officials in Michigan are warning hunters to look for signs in deer carcass of bovine tuberculosis – an infectious disease. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources states this is an ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found another unusual way animals can get humans sick. Luckily, this one doesn't involve kisses from your pet.

Under federal requirements, finding TB in a free-ranging wild animal means testing of all cattle must expand from 3 miles to 10 miles and surveillance in hunter-harvested deer will intensify.

Bovine tuberculosis (bovine Tb) is an on-going issue in Indiana’s wild white-tailed deer herd. Bovine Tb was first discovered in wild deer in Indiana in August 2016 near a bovine Tb positive cattle ...