Bovine TB Blog

September 2008 - Posts

• Going up

  We are not referring to nationally acquired toxic debt, although a whole new blog could be devoted to the last few years' obsessional pyramid selling of unsustainable credit to people who hadn't a cat in hell's chance of ever paying it back... Posted Sep 29 2008, 08:34 PM by Bovine TB Select Tags... SaveCancel [Edit Tags]

• 'Bovine' Tuberculosis is a misnomer

  We have been castigated on this site many times for flagging up the many victims of 'bovine' TB. "It's 'bovine' the comments shriek, and "what bit of 'cow' don't you understand?" But this clever little bacterium... Posted Sep 25 2008, 11:12 AM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]

• bTB and camelids

  The popularity of camelids in GB can be seen from the estimated numbers of llamas and alpacas which are now conservatively put at 20,000 and 5,000 respectively. But recent spillover cases of "bovine" TB into this population has raised several... Posted Sep 11 2008, 08:19 AM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]

• Under discussion...

  The outcome of the European Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCFCAH) meeting on the export of live animals from GB, which we discussed here is outlined in more detail on the ProMed website. We are grateful for sight of this. "The... Posted Sep 10 2008, 04:49 PM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]

• "Easily Cured" or an under appreciated risk?

  Recent media coverage of the Cornish lady (and her dog) who contracted bTB, had the glib and airy observation that "TB is easily cured", implying that an aspirin, an organic carrot and a dose of selenium would do the business. So what are the... Posted Sep 09 2008, 07:35 PM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]

• European perspective - SCFCAH

  Today the European SCFCAH (Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health) met to discuss, amongst other things, an .... "Exchange of views on measures which may be required to prevent the spread of bovine tuberculosis from areas with a high... Posted Sep 02 2008, 07:50 PM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]