A case of tuberculosis detected at a packing plant has led the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to a British Columbia farm where three more cattle have been detected with the disease.
Following usual protocols, the CFIA has traced cattle moved from this farm in the southern interior of British Columbia to 25 other premises with 18,000 head of cattle that are now under quarantine and undergoing testing.
Those premises are in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
The CFIA tests in Ottawa indicate this is a strain of tuberculosis never seen before in Canada, either in wildlife or cattle.
