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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 990481" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>N/T,</p><p>I'm a vet, and I KNEW better - but, I'm also human, and we typically do the easy, inexpensive thing - even when, down the road, it may turn out to be costly.</p><p>Most folks are unaware how prevalent BLV infection is in our beef herds - look here for more info: <a href="http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/beefcowcalf/downloads/beef97/Beef97_is_BLV.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health ... is_BLV.pdf</a></p><p>I have no doubt that *I* was largely responsible for spreading this infection so widely through my herd, 'cause I never changed needles 'til they got so dull I couldn't shove 'em through the skin any more, went in-and-out of vaccine bottles with needles that had already been in a cow, and used the same OB sleeve on multiple cows - all proven methods of transferring potentially-infected blood cells from one animal to the next. </p><p></p><p>Researchers at KSU have shown that in herds with anaplasmosis, that if you re-use a needle that has just been inserted into a carrier animal, or one incubating the disease, that about 60% of the time, you'll transmit that parasite to the next cow you stick.</p><p></p><p>I don't re-use needles or OB sleeves anymore - well, except on steers, and cows that I KNOW are BLV-positive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 990481, member: 12607"] N/T, I'm a vet, and I KNEW better - but, I'm also human, and we typically do the easy, inexpensive thing - even when, down the road, it may turn out to be costly. Most folks are unaware how prevalent BLV infection is in our beef herds - look here for more info: [url=http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/nahms/beefcowcalf/downloads/beef97/Beef97_is_BLV.pdf]http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health ... is_BLV.pdf[/url] I have no doubt that *I* was largely responsible for spreading this infection so widely through my herd, 'cause I never changed needles 'til they got so dull I couldn't shove 'em through the skin any more, went in-and-out of vaccine bottles with needles that had already been in a cow, and used the same OB sleeve on multiple cows - all proven methods of transferring potentially-infected blood cells from one animal to the next. Researchers at KSU have shown that in herds with anaplasmosis, that if you re-use a needle that has just been inserted into a carrier animal, or one incubating the disease, that about 60% of the time, you'll transmit that parasite to the next cow you stick. I don't re-use needles or OB sleeves anymore - well, except on steers, and cows that I KNOW are BLV-positive. [/QUOTE]
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