Source: PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 2/5/20


A cattle virus, first identified in Japan in 2003, has just been confirmed in U.S. cattle. News of the finding was published in medical journal, "Emerging Infectious Diseases." The virus is called "bovine kobuvirus" (BKV), and it is in the same family as viruses that cause head colds and sinus infections in humans, as well as polio. Leyi Wang, led the study that confirmed the finding. He is a veterinary clinical medicine professor at the University of Illinois. Wang notes the virus was found through analyzing samples from intestines of...

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