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BLV

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BLV
bovine leukemia virus.


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More than a decade ago the Lancet, a prestigious British medical journal, reported that infant chimpanzees fed from birth on raw milk from cows infected with BLV developed leukemia and a particular type of pneumonia.
Visna virus ran second, with HTLV-I and BLV a distant third.
Be aware that quarantine of new arrivals will not prevent the introduction of chronic, asymptomatic carrier state diseases such as Johne's, BVD, IBR, salmonellosis, BLV and contagious mastitis.
 
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