Scientists with the Agricultural Research Service and their research partners have made several discoveries that may help in the fight against a painful eye disease that is ranked the country’s 3rd greatest health challenge to cattle herds: pinkeye.
Pinkeye is a highly contagious disease that has infected 50% of the nation’s herds. Within those herds, about 9% of calves have pinkeye. Fully one-eighth of cattle producers name it as their most important problem.
According to Mike Clawson, molecular biologist at the ARS Animal Health Genomics research unit of the U.S. Meat Animal…
