These ailing cows have only options: Being in isolation or facing massacre

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September 9, 2016

Kolar, Sep 9: There is alarm over the outbreak of Brucellosis disease in Kolar district following the detection of Brucella abortus bacterium in 998 cattle, including 258 cows. Symptoms of Brucellosis have been found in animals at Rakshith Farm owned by Kolar MLA Varthur R Prakash.

cattleAlso known as 'bangs disease' and `contagious abortion', Brucellosis spreads from the vaginal discharge of an infected cow or from an aborted foetus. It's said to have no treatment and the disease poses a major risk as milk consumed from the infected cows can cause undulant fever among humans.

Animal husbandry department's deputy director (Kolar) S Channakeshava said: “We have been screening the animals for Brucellosis for the past one year and 258 cows tested positive. We have ordered culling of these cows and directed farm owners to bury the carcasses deep in the soil to prevent contamination.”

Meanwhile, Animal Husbandry Minister A Manju said that there was no need to cull the brucellosis infected cattle in the diary. Manju told media persons in Bengaluru that an 11-member expert committee constituted by the department had opined that there was no need to cull over 900 animals that had tested positive for brucellosis, as the disease was endemic.

The committee has in turn advised that the infected animals be quarantined in an isolated area in the farm. The animals will be kept in isolation for at least three months, before another round of tests are conducted. If they test positive again, then they will be continued to be kept in isolation. The committee has recommended that the animals should not be used for breeding purposes and taken out of the farm.

The farm, which commenced operations a year ago at Begli village on the outskirts of Kolar (about 70km from Bengaluru), has over 2,500 cross-bred cows brought from Maharashtra by Prakash. Though animal husbandry staff detected Brucellosis several months ago, they reportedly did not raise a red flag and the issue was kept under wraps for "observation and scientific analysis".

In the meantime, according to sources in the animal husbandry department, some cows were either sold to farmers in the region or sent to slaughter houses.

The issue snowballed into a controversy after some political activists alleged that nearly 7,000 litres of infected milk were supplied to the local milk producers' cooperative society from Rakshith Farm. They also alleged that Prakash was trying to sell the infected cows to farmers.

Dr T Jayaram, senior deputy director of the department, said Brucellosis disease is a zoonotic disease, is animal borne and can be easily transmitted to humans who come in close contact with affected animals. The affected animal would develop various disorders which results in abortion twice in a row and after two abortions though the animal looks good, it would have traces of the bacteria and spread it to other animals. Any human who comes in close contact with the animal will develop various health disorders, including high fever, joint pain and impotency.

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Naren kotian
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Sunday, 11 Sep 2016

jihadists galige kotre .they will eat ..haha ..otnalli jihadi galu saaybekashte ....we should start injecting banned anti biotics to cows before selling ...5-6 consumption inda multi organ failure guarantee....haha

Satyameva jayate
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Saturday, 10 Sep 2016

Another option for naren urgent Viren to take them to Singapore......protect mothers......

TRUE INDIAN
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Friday, 9 Sep 2016

ITS HARAM TO EAT SICK COW. SORRY NO NEED

TRUE INDIAN
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Friday, 9 Sep 2016

What they have done during mothers day. They let their cow mother to eat garbage plastics etc.

Abbu Beary
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Friday, 9 Sep 2016

Pathetic condition of mothers and gods of saffron terrorists.

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April 21,2020

Bengaluru: Seven fresh Covid 19 positive cases are reported in 24 hours which includes one death from Kalburgi. Of the 7 cases, Kalburgi and Vijayapura share 3 cases each and one case is from Dakshin Kannada, as per the Tuesday mid day health bulletin issued by the Department of Health and Family Welfare.

The deceased has been identified as a 80 year male from Kalburgi. He was bedridden from the past 3 years and was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease since 4 years. Health officials said that he came with the complaint of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and expired on Monday night.

Along with his death, the total death tally now stands at 17 and the total positive cases in the state is 415.

Kalburgi which recorded the first death for Covid 19 in India has so far reported 4 deaths including the above one. The first slot for recording more deaths in the state is now shared by Bangalore urban district and Kalburgi district with each recording 4 deaths each.

Kalburgi district now has 24 active cases.

All the three cases are females, reported from Vijayapura were the primary contacts of a Corona positive patient (P306), who inturn got infected from a patient with history of SARI.

Apart from the deceased male who tested positive, the other cases from Kalburgi is of 29 year old male with influenza like illness and other case is of a 61 year old male whose source of infection is yet to be traced by the health department.

The case from Dakshin Kannada district is from Bantwala region and the positive patient is a 67 year old female with history of SARI. She is getting treated at designated hospital at Dakshin Kannada.

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March 1,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 1: A youth lost his life in a lift crash at a wedding hall at Kallapu near Thokkottu on the outskirts of the city today. 

The deceased has been identified as Hamzah (30), a resident near Thumbay, who was part of the catering team hired for the marriage ceremony. 

The tragedy occurred at around 2 p.m. when Hamzah was getting ready to bring utensils and other things by lift from the third floor of the hall. All of a sudden, the lift’s ropes came loose and Hamzah lost his balance and got trapped inside.

He was pulled out and rushed to a hospital in Deralakatte, but he breathed his last on the way. He is survived by his wife and three children.

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Mbeary
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Sunday, 1 Mar 2020

Inna lillah.. I think someone with a good computer knowledge under an organisation shud come up with fund raisals so that we can donate in a transparent manner

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July 2,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 2: Mangaluru BJP Corporator Manohar Shetty, who entered a manhole to clean a drain, said that he did it to avoid waterlogging ahead of monsoon as people were facing several problems for the past few years.

"In my ward, there is a rainwater drain at Kadri Kambla junction and for the past few years, there was a waterlogging problem due to trash water used to collect and vehicles used to find it difficult to pass in that area," Shetty said.

"Since there was a lot of trash it had to be cleared to avoid waterlogging. We changed our dresses, and then I along with my three party workers entered manhole and cleared the trash," he said.

The Mangaluru BJP Corporator further said that it was not a publicity stunt, and he cleaned the drain to solve the problem of people. "During elections, I had promised people to get the drain cleaned. Since monsoon was coming; something had to be done; we did not do it for publicity but to solve a problem," he said.

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