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Well thats a little different isnt it - thats ensuring disease isnt spread. Same with foot and mouth etc etc
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Well thats a little different isnt it - thats ensuring disease isnt spread. Same with foot and mouth etc etc
upsidedown
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Correct and where do the cattle contact the TB from?
upsidedown
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TB in cattle when I embarked on my agricultural career was pretty close to be eradicated but now in the dairy counties it's rife and we need to control it , sorry but the badgers are the main culprits so need to be controlled.
rulefan
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Vaccinate the cattle We vaccinate people and don't control (ie kill) human carriers.
Surprisingly the main emphasis would appear to have been in finding a badger vaccination, rather than one for cattle! We are told that real progress has been made yet a vaccination for cattle is STILL not available as efforts have, instead, been concentrated on a vaccine for badgers.
Surprisingly the main emphasis would appear to have been in finding a badger vaccination, rather than one for cattle! We are told that real progress has been made yet a vaccination for cattle is STILL not available as efforts have, instead, been concentrated on a vaccine for badgers.
Foxholer
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Castclear is currently fine (and likely to stay so). It's Carbendazim that is banned (and was a deterrent, not a 'killer').
upsidedown
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Vaccination of cattle against TB is currently prohibited by EU legislation, principally because BCG (Bacille Calmette Guerin) vaccination can interfere with the tuberculin skin test, the most commonly used diagnostic test for TB in cattle.
rulefan
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Yes I know that but my point was that the bulk of research funding is going into badger vaccination not cattle vaccination.
Current evidence suggests that the majority of BCG vaccinated animals (cattle), greater than 90% will revert to test-negative status within 1 year.
Further, in this parliament (2010-15), the coalition government is spending £24.6m on the development of cattle and badger TB vaccines. Over the next decade, according to Defra the cost of TB in cattle is projected to rise to £1bn.
Seems like the cost of development is far outweighed by the benefit
Current evidence suggests that the majority of BCG vaccinated animals (cattle), greater than 90% will revert to test-negative status within 1 year.
Further, in this parliament (2010-15), the coalition government is spending £24.6m on the development of cattle and badger TB vaccines. Over the next decade, according to Defra the cost of TB in cattle is projected to rise to £1bn.
Seems like the cost of development is far outweighed by the benefit
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upsidedown
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far as I'm aware the vaccine is available but field scale trials have been.held back , cost and legislation so that is why the badger vaccine has been .given more emphasis. From a farming perspective we'd welcome anything to get rid of TB
Interesting subject creep in this thread! We have gone from worm casts to vaccinating cattle in less than 30 posts! :mmm:
Foxholer
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Green Bay Hacker
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Really!!
Foxholer
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What was the product?
I'd have thought it was more like 99.95% Agriculture and 0.05% Golf too!
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Actually I have no idea as he didn't specify what he was using, but I will try to find out.
