Bovine TB Blog

March 2010 - Posts

• Baaaaa - more sheep

  Hard on the heels of our posting below, comes the story this week of a flock of Lleyn sheep, with several 'bovine' TB casualties. Vets were alerted by chronic weight loss in 20 of 220 ewes and one ram. Postmortem findings in three of the six sheep... Posted Mar 21 2010, 01:12 PM by Bovine TB

• TB transmission - why we bother.

  Every so often the comment comes up 'why bother'? Why bother to test and slaughter cattle - milk is pasteurised, meat inspected at slaughter and cooked, so why not just ignore tuberculosis? But although Defra are making a fine job of doing exactly... Posted Mar 17 2010, 10:14 AM by Bovine TB

• Air brushing

  Four years ago, almost to the day, our co-editor blasted the RSPCA and the badger groups with this posting after their collective 'airbrushing' of the effect of tuberculosis on their chosen species. If you remember, the RSPCA came up with the... Posted Mar 03 2010, 09:36 AM by Bovine TB