The purpose of medicine is to prevent significant disease, to decrease pain and to postpone death... Technology has to support these goals-if not, it may even be counterproductive.

The underreporting of this disease is monumental. Physicians don't even consider it when they treat adults for persistent cough.

It's really farming at its finest when you're helping your fellow man and neighbors, hopefully, fight an overwhelming disease.

We are unwilling to accept any unnecessary risk and we will protect our industry from any invasive disease. At the risk of being offensive to our friends in Florida, this plan, this science, is all new to us. Didn't the scientists just come out against the 1,900-foot rule? Didn't they say that would eradicate canker?

They (migratory birds) can participate in the spread of the disease. But in our case we should be more worried with the trade of poultry products.

However, the amount is still limited and insufficient to stop the spread of the disease. Overseas donors also expect local administrations to dole out funds for the TB elimination program, but the administrations refuse because they know foreign donors have already provided funds.