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Badgers Responsible For Half Of Tuberculosis Found In Cattle
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1064144" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Plenty of other vectors that can carry it. In NZ the emphasis is on opossum control, though wild deer can also be infected... not to mention other cattle.</p><p></p><p>It's a long time since I've been savvy with UK farming, but back in around 1994 I heard a vet say "the government had it's hands burned on TB" as the measures they'd put in place to control it were ineffective, making them unwilling to attempt further action. What has happened since I don't know.</p><p>Whereas NZ *has* had effective measures (albeit unpopular owing to the widespread use of poison) to control non-bovine vectors of the disease and has reduced incidence to very low levels.</p><p>A recent cluster of cases in TB-free districts has been traced back to cattle movements between herds. As a sharemilker I've been somewhat involved in trading cattle enough to know just how far they can go, last year I was getting phone calls from agents wanting to "fill a truckload" for the South Island. This serves as a warning that having gotten control, there's no relaxing - TB hasn't been eliminated yet, and won't be until it's also eliminated in the wild-life population.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1064144, member: 9267"] Plenty of other vectors that can carry it. In NZ the emphasis is on opossum control, though wild deer can also be infected... not to mention other cattle. It's a long time since I've been savvy with UK farming, but back in around 1994 I heard a vet say "the government had it's hands burned on TB" as the measures they'd put in place to control it were ineffective, making them unwilling to attempt further action. What has happened since I don't know. Whereas NZ *has* had effective measures (albeit unpopular owing to the widespread use of poison) to control non-bovine vectors of the disease and has reduced incidence to very low levels. A recent cluster of cases in TB-free districts has been traced back to cattle movements between herds. As a sharemilker I've been somewhat involved in trading cattle enough to know just how far they can go, last year I was getting phone calls from agents wanting to "fill a truckload" for the South Island. This serves as a warning that having gotten control, there's no relaxing - TB hasn't been eliminated yet, and won't be until it's also eliminated in the wild-life population. [/QUOTE]
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