Bovine TB Blog

January 2010 - Posts

• Sideline?

  For anyone with a thorough knowledge of bTB and the required tea-and-sympathy skills, the NFU are offering three EU funded posts in the SW. Salary: £27,410 - £33,806 Location: Exeter Job Type: Contract - 4 years Source: The European Agricultural Fund... Posted Jan 30 2010, 11:39 AM by Bovine TB

• bTB in Badgers.

  While the debate rages about cattle / badgers and now alpacas and other companion animals and their involvement and exposure to the bacterium known as m.bovis , Dr. Zellweger has looked at the effect of the disease on badgers. In a short communication... Posted Jan 19 2010, 10:16 AM by Bovine TB

• Stats? stuck

  At the Oxford Farming Conference during the first week of January, The Minister of State for (some) Animal's Health, the Right Honourable Hilary Benn MP., responding to criticism of his non-policy on bTB, hinted that unofficial Defra figures are showing... Posted Jan 17 2010, 11:59 PM by Bovine TB

• " DEFRA policy is essentially doing nothing."

  Following our posting summarising the opinions of Dr. Ueli Zellweger on the current one sided bTB non-policy operated with such devastating results by Defra, warmwell.com has received an email from Dr Paul Gillett, M.B, Ch.B, MRCP, FRCPath., which we... Posted Jan 10 2010, 11:04 AM by Bovine TB

• Farmers can't wait ...

  .... says Shadow minister Jim Paice, MP speaking to the Western Morning News at the Oxford Farming Conference this week. Cattle farmers in the Westcountry just don't have the time to wait for a vaccine for bovine tuberculosis, according to shadow... Posted Jan 07 2010, 11:18 AM by Bovine TB

• Badgers v. cattle. Relative contributions to disease transmission.

  After our posting on the relative infectivety of bTB lesions in cattle, badgers and other mammals, a comment alerted us to work done outside the ISG box, which sought to match the attributed cause of a TB breakdown to either cattle or wildlife. The model... Posted Jan 05 2010, 04:59 AM by Bovine TB

• "Eliminate the Cause"

  As another miserable and expensive year of Minister’s non-policy on ‘bovine’ TB has drawn to a close, we have received a sobering overview of the situation from Dr. Ueli Zellweger, a veterinary practitioner of some 30 years experience both in this country... Posted Jan 04 2010, 12:12 PM by Bovine TB

• Wildlife Assessments

  We have mentioned the veterinary / farmer wildlife assessment initiative several times but a comment which has come in today reminded us of another option. "My friend in Cornwall, an Alpaca owner who has already lost many of her Alpacas to TB, has... Posted Jan 03 2010, 11:05 AM by Bovine TB

• 'Eliminate the cause'

  As another miserable and expensive year of our Minister's non-policy on 'bovine' TB draws to a close, we have received a sobering overview of the situation from Dr. Ueli Zellweger, a veterinary practitioner of some 30 years experience both... Posted Jan 02 2010, 05:00 AM by Bovine TB