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Livestock disease plan to be presented soonBILLINGS, Mont. (AP)--A federal official says his agency is working with the three Yellowstone-area states to present a new strategy by early October for handling the livestock disease brucellosis. Brian McCluskey is western regional director for the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service. He says a new plan for the disease will be put out for public comment before a meeting of the U.S. Animal Health Association that begins Oct. 7. Brucellosis causes cattle and some wildlife to abort their young. It's been eradicated in livestock but persists in wildlife around Yellowstone National Park. At a ceremony in Helena Sept. 8, McCluskey presented Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer with a certificate declaring the state free of the disease. Schweitzer credited livestock producers and the Department of Livestock for helping restore the state's disease-free status after it was lost in 2008.
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