Remember back in August there was a big stink about an Alpaca (Geronimo) that tested positive for Bovine Tuberculosis and had to be put down, causing much angst and anger in it's owners as well as the wider community. Well, interestingly it turns out that the post mortem on the animal showed no signs of the disease only atypical lesions on the liver and lymph nodes (TB usually shows up in the lungs) - What can we conclude?
Well, I guess science isn't perfect, tests aren't perfect and occasionally people make mistakes (including when doing post mortems), sometimes all of these things conflate to enable and justify horrible things to be done. That's what it's like to live in a universe governed only by the laws of physics I suppose, I feel for all involved..
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