Given a paragraph, generate a claim that is supported by the given paragraph. 1) The claim must contain information from within the paragraph. 2) A sentence within the paragraph can be used as a claim. 3) The claim should not have contradictions within the paragraph. 4) The claim should be at most one sentence long.
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Question: Chances are low the situation will imperil other cattle herds or people, particularly since the herd in southeastern North Dakota’s Sargent County has been quarantined. But it could delay solving the mystery of how a strain of bovine TB similar to cases associated with cattle south of the U.S. border surfaced in cows near the northern border. “We are the workforce right now in the field, and we have limited staff,” State Veterinarian Susan Keller said Wednesday of the North Dakota Agriculture Department’s Animal Health Division, which has only a handful of workers. She said federal officials wanted to help but couldn’t because of the shutdown tied to a dispute over funding a southern border wall. President Donald Trump and congressional leaders on Friday struck a short-term deal to reopen the government for three weeks, ending a record, 35-day partial shutdown. Two cows from the Sargent County herd tested positive for bovine TB at slaughter plants in South Dakota and Minnesota, and the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Iowa confirmed the diagnosis late last year. The herd was then tested, and five more cows were confirmed to have the infectious disease that can be passed between cattle and people. The source is still unknown. The ranchers have not bought any cattle from Mexico, have no ties to the country and have no workers from south of the border, according to Keller. “It’s a very slow-growing organism. It could have been there (in the herd) for quite a while. We don’t know when it was introduced or where it came from,” she said. “Maybe it’s a strain that has been here (U.S.) for a while but it’s mutated.” Bovine TB is a public health concern worldwide, though the risk to people in developed countries is low given advances in prevention and control measures such as testing, culling of diseased animals and pasteurizing of milk, according to the National Institutes of Health. North Dakota is not alone in recently identifying a new strain of bovine TB — officials in Canada are investigating cattle infections in the province of British Columbia that involve a strain not previously documented in that country, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. “You can have mutations of TB, similar to influenza,” Keller said, stressing that a new strain is not comparable to a new disease — it doesn’t change measures in place to guard against bovine TB. The new case is still a concern to ranchers, according to Julie Ellingson, executive vice president of the North Dakota Stockmen’s Association. “The livestock industry is concerned about any and all cases of TB, no matter what the strain,” she said. “We have worked hard to maintain a healthy herd in our state, and identifying and addressing the situation as quickly as possible is our highest priority.” Responses to such animal disease cases are a cooperative effort of state and federal agencies, particularly the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and its Veterinary Services and Wildlife Services components. North Dakota’s Animal Health Division has received only limited help so far from those agencies and in particular is waiting on information that will help determine whether the entire herd of about 100 animals is slaughtered or whether the owners can continue managing the rest of the herd with ongoing testing. Officials also are working to determine where all of the animals in the herd originated, and to ensure that none ended up in other herds over the past five years. Keller said the likelihood of that is remote given that the ranchers raise cattle for beef, not to provide seed stock to other ranchers. It wasn’t clear how many APHIS officials have been available to work on the case. Agency spokeswoman Lyndsay Cole, who was herself furloughed but on call, said only that the agency “is assisting with diagnostic testing” and would provide further help “once the lapse in appropriations is over.” The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, which represents more than 175,000 cattle ranchers and feeders around the country, did not directly comment on the federal shutdown’s impact on the North Dakota investigation. Chief Veterinarian Kathy Simmons in a statement to The Associated Press expressed confidence that Keller and other North Dakota officials working in conjunction with federal officials “can manage a successful disease response.” Keller said the investigation could stretch out for several months, but she hopes to be able to say definitively by early summer that officials have taken all necessary actions to ensure no spread of the disease. “Neighbors, people in the community, neighboring states, they want to know — do you have things tied up?” she said. ___ Follow Blake Nicholson on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/NicholsonBlake

Answer: Federal shutdown affected probe into unique bovine TB case.


Question: The World Health Organisation has urged countries to widen testing to contain the virus. Malaysia’s tally of infections has jumped six-fold in just ten days to more than 1,500, exceeded only by China, South Korea and Japan in Asia. By the end of the week, Malaysia will double daily testing capacity to 7,000, before stepping that up to 16,500 by the first week of April, the official, Noor Hisham Abdullah, said. “We are preparing for the worst scenario, but hope for the best outcomes,” Noor Hisham, the director general of Malaysia’s health ministry, added in a text message late on Monday. “Once we have the capacity ready, we will scale up active case detection, testing, isolation and treatment.”  Ministry data shows Malaysia had done 17,923 tests by Monday, when the biggest daily increase of 212 new infections took the country’s total to 1,518. That works out to about 560 tests per million people, fewer than neighboring Singapore’s 4,500 tests per million, according to the city-state’s most recent data, but well above Indonesia’s  single-digit figures. Malaysia has recorded at least 14 virus deaths. It has linked nearly two-thirds of its infections to a religious gathering last month near the capital, Kuala Lumpur, that the government says drew more than 16,000 people. The event is also linked to more than 100 cases across Southeast Asia. On Monday, Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said Malaysia may extend beyond the end of the month travel and movement curbs imposed to contain the spread of the virus. [nL4N2BG1XK]

Answer: Malaysia steps up coronavirus tests as it braces for 'worst scenario'.


Question: The contaminant, a large complex molecule chemically  similar to heparin, was detected in samples from a Chinese and  a U.S. plant, both owned by Baxter’s supplier, Wisconsin-based  Scientific Protein Laboratories LLC (SPL). “At this point we don’t know how the heparin-like compound  got into the active pharmaceutical ingredient,” Food and Drug  Administration Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock told  reporters on a conference call. “We don’t yet have a direct  causal link between the contaminant and the adverse events.”    Nineteen deaths have been reported in patients taking a  version of heparin that appear related to the drug, though it  is unknown if all of those patients were on Baxter’s heparin or  another product. The other major U.S. heparin supplier, APP Pharmaceuticals  Inc, ramped up production to avoid a drug shortage after Baxter  recalled most of its heparin products last week. Tests on APP’s heparin have not turned up any  contamination, Woodcock said. The FDA’s foreign inspection process has been criticized  for years as inadequate and those complaints were stoked when  FDA officials acknowledged recently the agency never inspected  the Chinese plant in question because of confusion over the  company’s Chinese name. FDA has not yet sifted through the 785 total adverse event  reports in heparin patients to determine which are  drug-related, Woodcock said. She cautioned that increased attention to the problem has  led to an influx of side-effect reporting and that may not be  related to the drug. Heparin is derived from pig intestines and is used in  dialysis and heart procedures, among other surgeries, to avoid  blood clots. Last week, the FDA said it found “objectionable conditions”  at the plant. Facility owner Scientific Protein Labs in a  statement said the contaminant theory is “speculation at this  point” and that it is working with the FDA to determine the  cause of the problems. FDA officials also don’t know whether the contaminant was  added intentionally or if it occurred as part of a natural  biological process. “We still don’t know whether this inadvertently got into  the supply or whether it was actually added” deliberately,  Woodcock said. Severe reactions such as anaphylaxis and low blood pressure  are signs of dangerous allergic reactions related to heparin  use. Earlier on Wednesday, Baxter, which has recalled most of  its heparin blood thinning products, said it narrowed down  possibilities for the root causes. Baxter ruled out its Cherry Hill, New Jersey, facility,  where the drug is manufactured in a later step in the process,  as a source of the problem.

Answer:
FDA says contaminant in some Baxter heparin.