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December 2010 - Posts

• ASA uphold (another) complaint by FUW.

  Once again, the Advertising Standards Authority have upheld complaints against misleading statements issued by the so-called protectors of badgers. This time the 'Save the Badger' campaign, operating from the address of 'Secret World Wildlife... Posted Dec 22 2010, 12:43 AM by Bovine TB Select Tags... SaveCancel [Edit Tags]

• Deadline for the Welsh consultation.

  Just a day to go before the closing of the Welsh Assembly Government's consultation on culling badgers infected with tuberculosis. Details can be found on the FUW website, which has online links to submit replies. The deadline for replies to this... Posted Dec 16 2010, 07:31 AM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]

• 24 hours to go.

  The consultation on whether or not to control infectious badgers to prevent the spread of tuberculosis closes on the 8th. December. Farmers Guardian has a timely reminder. Responses can be sent via email to: tbbc@defra.gsi.gov.uk Read More... Posted Dec 07 2010, 03:39 AM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]

• Professionals comment on that 74%

  When we put up a brief glimpse of the source of Defra's '800 badgers, vaccination and 74% efficacy assumption' posting, it attracted the attention of several biologists, veterinary pathologists and other suitably qualified people. Their somewhat... Posted Dec 06 2010, 07:31 AM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]

• BCG efficacy - does it work?

  We have so far concentrated on ploughing through the reams of paper and annexes associated with the 800 badger project, the results of which we explored below. But VLA / FERA have had several goes at vaccinating badgers with BCG, and then chopping them... Posted Dec 05 2010, 10:53 AM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]

• ... and more

  In our posting below we explored in a little more detail, Defra's headline grabbing claim: A key finding of the field study, conducted over four years in a naturally infected population of more than 800 wild badgers in Gloucestershire, was that vaccination... Posted Dec 03 2010, 01:04 PM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]

• More on that 74 percent.

  We touched the surface of the most recent headline grabber from Defra in the posting below, but having had a trawl through the project again, we think we have sorted where the 74% comes from. How accurate is its reporting, is quite another matter. But... Posted Dec 02 2010, 12:27 PM by Bovine TB [Edit Tags]