Immucell, Inc. (ICCC)

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Mastitis Control Programs:
Bovine Mastitis and Milking Management

What is interesting is that for every clinical case of mastitis, there will be 15 to 40 sub-clinical cases. This is the market ICCC is targeting with Mast Out.


Clinical Mastitis -- visible signs of mastitis which include:

Mild signs flakes or clots in the milk, may have slight swelling of infected quarter.
Severe signs secretion abnormal, hot, swollen quarter or udder; cow may have a fever, rapid pulse, loss of appetite, dehydration and depression; death may occur.
Subclinical Mastitis -- no visible signs of the disease:

Somatic cell count (SCC) of the milk will be elevated.
Bacteriological culturing of milk will detect bacteria in the milk.
Causes the greatest financial loss to dairy farmers through lowered milk production.
For every clinical case of mastitis, there will be 15 to 40 sub-clinical cases.
Somatic Cell Count (SCC) -- the number of leukocytes or white blood cells per milliliter of milk.

Normal milk will have less than 200,000 cells per milliliter.
An elevated SCC is an indication of inflammation in the udder.
Bulk tank SCC gives an indication of the level of sub-clinical mastitis and the loss of milk production in a herd due to mastitis.

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ansci/dairy/as1129w.htm