New TB threat halts badger cull


07 September 1999


New TB threat halts badger cull


THE Health and Safety Executive has stopped a badger cull being carried out as part of an investigation into bovine tuberculosis (TB).


The agency said there was a danger of staff contracting TB from the infected carcasses of dead badgers.


  • The Daily Telegraph 07/09/99 page 4 (In Brief)

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