In the 1960s, it was a given that cattle producers would need to treat cattle for pinkeye on a regular basis, even if they used preventive measures. At the same time, George Washington Pugh Jr. was carrying out groundbreaking work to understand the role of M. bovis in pinkeye.
More recently, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln published a collaborative study with the USDA Agricultural Research Service assessing immunological responses and the effectiveness of vaccines to protect cattle against diseases associated with M. bovis.
But it…