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    Bovine Leukemia Virus A Call to Action

    Aug 26, 2022 5 minutes
    By Dr. Paul Bartlett

    Bovine leukemia virus currently infects almost half of all dairy cows and about a third of beef cattle in the United States. It reduces milk production, shortens the infected animals’ life spans, and disrupts their immune systems. The virus is so widespread today that it’s the leading cause of cattle being condemned in the U.S., because of virus-induced lymphoma. And now, some new and highly controversial findings are causing scientists to reexamine if the bovine leukemia virus (BLV) causes health problems in humans.

    The prevalence of BLV has slowly been increasing since the 1960s and 1970s, when only about 10% of all U.S. cattle were infected. Back then, generations of North American animal scientists and veterinarians were taught that BLV wasn’t worth

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