This blog post was adapted from the UCCE Siskiyou Stockman - Livestock and Rangeland News – April 2016*
UC Davis’s Dr. Jeffery Stott has reached a new milestone is his work to address a major economic loss for California cattle producers—foothill abortion, a tick-borne bacterial disease that is estimated to cause the death of 45,000 to 90,000 calves each year. The first year of field trials is wrapping up, in which Stott’s team successfully vaccinated nearly 10,000 animals in California, Oregon, and Nevada against this deadly disease.