Bovine TB Blog

May 2009 - Posts

• Back to the Drawing Board?

  As our readers will have guessed by now, we are less than enthusiastic about the concept of vaccinating badgers, endemically infected with tuberculosis with - a vaccine for er, tuberculosis. Leaving aside the small niggles of designing of a badger 'crush'... Posted May 28 2009, 03:39 PM by Bovine TB

• Will they? Won't they?

  As the Westminster bubble bursts in a frenzy of accusations and counter accusations concerning whether our elected representatives have raided the communal cookie jar, the question surely should be, have they given us value for our money? Actually made... Posted May 19 2009, 03:20 PM by Bovine TB

• New Farmers' TB Blog

  Herefordshire beef farmer Julia Evans, is the first contributer to a new farmers' blog organised by Farmers Guardian, as part of their ongoing 'Target TB' initiative. After an FMD restock from a single closed herd in 2001, Julia writes: "In... Posted May 17 2009, 11:31 AM by Bovine TB

• Badgers v. Farmers

  Describing the overspill of badgerTB into other species including domestic pets, infection passed between people and their pets, the balance of payments deficit and the piling of ever more cattle into the "maw of the government's bTB killing... Posted May 14 2009, 03:48 PM by Bovine TB

• Spillover - update

  Today's front page headline in the Western Morning News, reads 'Massive rise in Animal TB cases' . That is 'animal' as in species other than badgers in which the disease is 'endemic', and sentinel tested cattle, which if they... Posted May 08 2009, 03:23 PM by Bovine TB

• Will the last cow standing

  .. turn out the lights. Further to our posting on the recently published work from York, and the flying teddies response from the Badger Trust, we read in the Western Morning News , Anthony Gibson's take on the paper. Mr. Gibson is a former SW director... Posted May 08 2009, 02:10 PM by Bovine TB

• Because we need a laugh ...

  ... we will post the Badger Trust's hissy fit press release relating to the work which we linked to below where it was shown that contact between badgers and cattle was 'much closer' than originally thought (at least by scientists). Study... Posted May 03 2009, 01:53 AM by Bovine TB