Tougher Disease Laws
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maintenance to protect our leading
industry, which is agriculture,”
Clymer said. “Once we delect a
problem in animals, we have to be
responsive to the greater industry
which is agriculture and not shy
away from dealing with those ani
mals which carry the disease.”
Efforts to change the laws are in
response to expressed concerns by
veterinarians and industry people
as to die limited ability the PDA
currently has to test and condem
non-typical farm animals for car-
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rying contagious diseases.
It is also an effort to take full
responsibility for protecting the
state’s leading industry, Clymer
said.
the issue came to a head recen
tly because of a bovine tuberculo
sis breakout in domestic deer and
elk herds in New York late last
year that apparently transmitted
the disease to Holsteins housed on
the same farm.
Despite a quarantine on the elk
and deer herd, which were then
slaughtered, the farm owner was
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of his dairy herd, because the cows
tested negative several times for
the contagious disease, and
because, according to the New
York agriculture and marketing
agency, it has never been clearly
shown that deer and elk could
transmit the disease to cows.
Now New York state requires
that deer must be biologically
segregated from cows.
Tuberculosis has long been
known to be transmissible between
cows and humans.
A number of the cows sold in
New York were purchased by Pen
isylvanians, who last month had
heir cows taken for slaughter.
Confirmation of contagious
übetculosis requites the slaughter
)f the animal. To date, no positive
esults for tuberculosis resulted.
Recently, New Yak shored up
the authority of its agriculture and
marketing commissioner by pass
ing legislation to give the commis
sioner the power to test any domes
tic animal fa tuberculosis.
Several years ago a tuberculosis
outbreak in Pennsylvania resulted
in the slaughter of a herd of cows in
Dauphin County and other cows
elsewhere. The state required
many months to regain its “TB
fiec” status, which enables cattle
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Dr. Max Van ButkirkJr., VMD,
directaof the PDA Bureau of Ani
mal Industry, said last month that
efforts were under way to deter
mine to what extent, if any, PDA
had the authority to test and con
demn non-traditional farm
animals.
The proposals by Rep. Clymer
are apparently as a result of those
and other inquiries into the extent
of Pennsylvania law.
Officials said that up until the
New York problem, it was not
known for certain if bovine tuber
culosis was transmittable between
cows and other animals, such as
deer and elk.
Pennsylvania’s 1913 Domestic
Animal Disease Suppression Law,
which gives the state the authority
to prevent, control, and eradicate
domestic animal diseases, does not
include deer or elk, but is currently
restricted to “... any equine ani
mal a bovine animal, sheep, goat,
pig. dog, cat, or poultry ...”
The proposed amendment
would extend that definition to
include. u ... or any wild a semi
wild animal held in captivity..
Also to be amended would be
the state’s 1931 Diseased Animal
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The definition of domestic ani
mal would also be expanded, and it
would also set a compensation lim
it that the state would pay for a
condemned wild or semiwild ani
mal or herd of animals.
Specifically, the intended
amendment for condemnation
compensation is, “The amount of
compensation paid by the com
monwealth for any wild or semi
wild animal in captivity and con
demned by the Department of
Agriculture to prevent the spread
of disease shall be no more than
$3OO per animal or 67 oercent of
the appraised value of the animal,
whichever is less, except that in no
case shall the compensation paid
by the commonwealth exceed the
sum of $lOO,OOO for any herd of
animals.**
Clymer said he has recently sent
out a memo seeking a cosponsor
for the bill, and that he seeks indus
try support.
“Of course, I hope this has the
support of the agriculture industry
and with people in Harrisburg,”
Clymer said. “I hope to be intro
ducing the bills within 10 days at
most, then I will work with the
chairman of the House Agriculture
(and Rural Affairs) Committee to
move the bills over (to the
Senate).”
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