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Test your herd for Q fever

²ÝÁñÉçÇø are being encouraged to test for Q fever if they are experiencing a range of fertility issues in their dairy herds

Katie Jones
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Test your herd for Q fever

This advice follows recent diagnostic data from 274 bulk tank milk QTest samples, 217 of which have been submitted to date in 2023, identifying that 50% of the herds tested were positive for Q fever...

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