8- B.I. Cattle Ranchers under quarantine

[whalesong]

Eight Big Island cattle ranches are under a quarantine, following an outbreak of a bovine venereal disease.

The rancher in whose herd the first infection was identified last year said he would like to see Hawaii follow the examples of several mainland states, which require routine testing of all bulls for the disease, Tricomoniasis. Ka‘u rancher Kyle Soares, who discovered the first cases of the disease in his herd in 2010, said he asked the Department of Agriculture to implement such a requirement.

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