Treat Bovine TB outbreak with the same urgency as Covid (UK)
Story by Rebecca Speare-Cole and Jane Dalton • 19h
Bovine tuberculosis should be treated with similar urgency seen during the Covid-19 pandemic if it is to be eradicated by the target year of 2038, scientists say.
The disease, which devastates farm businesses by infecting cows, has been back in the spotlight in recent weeks after TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson reported cases on his farm in Oxfordshire.
Efforts to control Bovine TB cost taxpayers £1billion since 2010 and farmers a similar amount, while hundreds of thousands of largely healthy badgers and infected cows have been compulsorily slaughtered in attempts to stem its spread, prompting fierce criticism from wildlife campaigners ...
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Scientists published an updated report on England’s bovine TB strategy at the request of the government, which aims to eradicate the disease by 2038.