Bovine TB Blog

March 2009 - Posts

• Welsh announce a badger cull

  As English farmers are being invited to diversify into wild animal veterinary practice, and vaccinate badgers endemically infected with tuberculosis, with a vaccine for, errr, tuberculosis, the Wesh Assembly has announced a cull of infected badgers. Last... Posted Mar 25 2009, 12:51 AM by Bovine TB

• Waiting in line...

  We are grateful to cartoonist Ken Wignall for permission to reproduce his work, first published in Farmers Guardian 21st March. Succinct and hugely entertaining, the cartoon of badgers waiting in line at a Defra TB Vaccination Centre had us in stitches... Posted Mar 24 2009, 04:30 PM by Bovine TB

• 2008 - Another stunning achievement.

  Defra figures for TB incidence in GB during 2008 are expected to be posted this week. A stunning achievement we're sure you'll agree; to take all the hard work and cost of the 1950s and 1960s eradication policies (and some follow up strategies... Posted Mar 21 2009, 04:39 AM by Bovine TB