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USDA offers plan for Yellowstone animal diseaseBILLINGS, Mont. (AP)--The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking comments on a proposal to designate the Yellowstone region as a special management zone for the animal disease brucellosis. The disease causes cows and wildlife including elk and bison to prematurely abort their young. Eradicated elsewhere in the nation, brucellosis has turned up at least seven times over the last decade in parts of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. In the past, infections in cattle led the USDA to impose to statewide trade restrictions. Under the new proposal, the Yellowstone area would be separated from the rest of the three states for purposes of managing the disease. That concept has been embraced by livestock officials from the three states. But it has been viewed skeptically by some ranchers, who worry about the region carrying the stigma of disease.
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