Only 1,000 cattle remain under Canadian Food Inspection
Agency tuberculosis quarantine in Western Canada.
There are also only 13 premises remaining under quarantine;
92 have now been released.
The quarantines began last September when an Alberta cow
sent for slaughter in the United States was identified there as diseased with tuberculosis.
That led to an immediate quarantine on the originating farm
which had more than 11,000 cattle on 16 premises. They were all slaughtered.
Six were later confirmed with the disease.
Trace-outs of all animals that had been sold to other
farmers and ranchers led to the large number of quarantines in Southern Alberta
and South-western Saskatchewan.
Lucky for the cattle industry, the situation did not result
in any bans from selling cattle or beef to other countries, especially the U.S.
