WHAT NEXT? BADGER FLU.
By A_McCormack | Thursday, August 20, 2009, 08:39
A government scientist is thought to have contracted bovine TB after working with infected badgers at the Food and Environment Research Agency in Gloucestershire.
The symptoms of bovine TB in humans are said to be similiar to 'flu but the condition is not fatal.
Badgers are believed to spread the disease and many agree that culling badgers is the best way to control it.
The Conservative spokesman on the environment, Nick Herbert, says that the current government are standing by while 40,000 cattle are destroyed every year because of bovine TB. He said that although humans weren't at great risk the disease is costing the tax payer millions of pounds a year.
Do you think badgers should be culled?
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What about vaccinating the badgers?
By Lilly_Byer at 09:20 on 20/08/09
ReportMAF in New Zealand have achieved outstanding success in recent years in eradicating bovine TB. Also a report titled "Eradication of Bovine Tuberculosis in the EU" issued in 2006 by the EU gives guidelines on how member states should eradicate the disease. Both these parties advocate an active approach to the removal of TB-infected wildlife as part of any program to eradicate bovine TB. In view of the above I think badgers should be culled. This is backed up by reductions seen in the ISG trial areas after culling ceased in October 2005. The following link shows extracts from the report which outlines the work. This work was funded by DEFRA and carried out by staff at Imperial College London.
tinyurl.com/kmk7vf
The following link shows extracts from the EU report
tinyurl.com/md6l8d
By u412499 at 09:06 on 20/08/09
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