BRD vs. endotoxins: How to tell the difference

How can you tell the difference between bovine respiratory disease (BRD) and endotoxins? Well, you can’t. With similar side effects, endotoxin events may be more widespread than anyone knows.

Many BRD wrecks, blamed on the lack of vaccine efficacy, may actually be the result of an adverse endotoxic event. The classic scenario that I see repeatedly is that a producer vaccinates the calves. At