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Control of bovine tb : badger culling ‘can make no meaningful contribution’
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.160.25.854
Subject(s) - culling , badger , bovine tuberculosis , control (management) , disease control , veterinary medicine , biology , environmental health , tuberculosis , medicine , computer science , herd , mycobacterium bovis , ecology , pathology , mycobacterium tuberculosis , artificial intelligence
Badgers are ‘clearly a source of cattle tb ’, but evaluation of data indicates that culling ‘can make no meaningful contribution’ to control of cattle tb in Britain Scientific findings indicate that the rising incidence of the disease can be reversed and geographical spread contained by the rigid application of cattle‐based control measures alone defra pledges to continue to work with stakeholders to reach a final policy decision bva rejects a suggestion that vets are ‘not interested’ in the scientific findings nfu argues that better testing and tighter controls will be ‘worthless’ unless something is done to stop ‘the relentless cycle of reinfection’ of cattle by badgers in hotspot areas — These are some of the conclusions in — and reactions to — the final report of the Independent Scientific Group on Cattle tb , which was published on June 18