CHEBOYGAN (AP) -- The state agriculture department says officials will set up what's being called a "potential high risk area" in a 10-mile radius around where a Cheboygan County deer was found to have bovine tuberculosis.
As a result, any cattle, bison and cervid farms within that radius must complete testing for bovine TB in the next six months.
The 10-mile circle falls within Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties.
The state also announced Thursday that a second 10-mile circle includes six farms on the border between Iosco and Ogemaw counties.
Those farms have to be tested because of a bovine TB-positive white-tailed deer that was discovered in Alcona County during the 2010 season.
State veterinarian Steven Halstead calls the mandatory testing "a routine practice" and "not cause for concern."
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