The great badgers and bovine TB debate

Hancox, M.

doi:10.1017/s0021859602002514

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“…M. bovis can cause disease in humans. In the 1930s there were some 2,000 deaths annually from bovine TB (Hancox, 2002, p. 224). The consumption of raw milk was the usual source of infection, but as pasteurisation of milk became routine, the number of cases dropped.…”

Section: Bovine Tb As a Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

One Body of Evidence, Three Different Policies: Bovine Tuberculosis Policy in Britain

Spencer

2011

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Bovine tuberculosis is an intractable policy problem characterised by conflict. Devolution offers the possibility of significant policy variation within Great Britain and bovine tuberculosis has seen this. In Great Britain three distinct policies developed on the back of the same substantial evidence base. Science has not provided the answer and the law has ensured that it remains a difficult issue for the Welsh and Westminster governments. The low incidence of bovine tuberculosis in Scotland has allowed a sustainable policy to develop in that nation.

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Section: Bovine Tb As a Problemmentioning

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One Body of Evidence, Three Different Policies: Bovine Tuberculosis Policy in Britain

Spencer

2011

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“…Sadly, cattle TB is now out of control, rising by c. 20 % a year, and back to 1960s levels. Unfortunately attention has focused to such an extent on badgers that many now seemingly do not understand how TB works in cattle and why annual testing and movement bans are the answer : they brought cattle TB down to tiny southwest hot-spots by the mid-1970s without any badger culling (Hancox 2000(Hancox , 2002(Hancox , 2003.…”

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Badger culling does not control cattle TB

Hancox¹

2004

J. Agric. Sci.

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A somewhat unpredicted effect of the 2001 Foot and Mouth crisis, has been to ‘derail the TB control programme both as regards cattle measures and the badger culling trial’ (EFRA 2003). Sadly, cattle TB is now out of control, rising by c. 20% a year, and back to 1960s levels. Unfortunately attention has focused to such an extent on badgers that many now seemingly do not understand how TB works in cattle and why annual testing and movement bans are the answer: they brought cattle TB down to tiny southwest hot-spots by the mid-1970s without any badger culling (Hancox 2000, 2002, 2003).

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“…Cattle TB is now out of control, rising at 20% a year, at a cost of £74 million last year, and with increased risk to public health. With the continuing backlog in cattle testing due to vet and cash constraints, a lack of a coherent Plan B of cattle measures, the crisis will worsen (Hancox 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003; EFRA 2003).…”

Section: Number Of Badgers Culled In Reactive Areas During 1999–2003mentioning

confidence: 99%