Almost 250,000 badgers were killed during England's 12-year cull, when marksmen were out every autumn trying to tackle bovine tuberculosis (TB) in its epicentre in the south-west of England. More ...
“We are now beginning to identify how the transmission happens,” study coauthor Rosie Woodroffe of the Zoological Society of London told BBC News, “and that ought to open up an array of finely tuned ...
A study of bacterial DNA has provided the first clear evidence that tuberculosis (TB) can spread between cattle and badgers living near farms. Scientists mapped the genetic blueprints, or genomes, of ...
A refreshed strategy to tackle bovine TB in England sets an ambition to roll out cattle vaccination by 2030, as part of a ...
Badgers are not transmitting bovine tuberculosis (TB) to cattle through contact as the two species are never close proximity, a study has concluded. Over the past 40 years’ research has maintained ...
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an important animal health and economic problem for the cattle industry and a potential zoonotic threat. Wild badgers (Meles meles) play a role on its epidemiology in some ...
Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) is a member of the M. tuberculosis complex (MTC), a group of host-associated, tuberculous disease-causing bacteria of high genetic similarity 1,2. Despite this high ...
A new Defra-backed badger vaccination field force is being rolled out in bTB hotspots as part of efforts to reduce disease ...
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