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thundara · 4011 days ago · link · · parent · post: Suspicious Virus Makes Rare Cross-Kingdom Leap From Plants to Honeybees | The Artful Amoeba, Scientific American Blog Network
Damn, neither had I. Modeling TB transmission in Bovine to test the idea of killing off / segregating infected cattle was just one of the first examples systems biology that I learned. Edit: You'll note that the wikipedia page lists "culling" as the treatment.During the first half of the 20th century, M. bovis is estimated to have been responsible for more losses among farm animals than all other infectious diseases combined.
Oh nice, just as antibiotic resistant TB is on the rise.