Badger vaccination effective against Bovine TB after 230,000 have been shot

Vaccination of badgers against Bovine TB works

Since 2013, it is believed that around 230,000 badgers have been killed in extensive culls across the UK to tackle Bovine TB according to the Badger Trust an organisation opposed to the culling. The UK government which has insisted on the badger culling at all stages estimates that between 70% and 90% of badgers …

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Domestic cats allegedly got TB from commercial raw food and gave the disease to their owners

Raw food diet for cats

NEWS AND COMMENT: Over 100 domestic cats may have been infected with TB after eating raw venison prepared commercially. It seems that the veterinarians’ warning about raw cat food has come true in this story about a product from Natural Instinct, a raw cat food supplier based in Surrey, UK. Research carried out by …

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Three domestic cats infected with bovine tuberculosis through eating raw cat food

Homemade raw cat food

I would class this as another potential pet food scandal. They keep on coming from the pet food manufacturing industry (for USA see the Truth About Pet Food website). In this instance veterinarians in the UK have put out a nationwide alert after three pedigree, purebred cats were diagnosed with bovine tuberculosis. It is …

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UK: bovine tuberculosis infects hundreds of domestic cats

Cat who got bovine TB

Hundreds of pet cats have been diagnosed with bovine tuberculosis (bTB). The disease also infected a well-known lioness at Paignton Zoo. She probably got the disease from eating an infected cow carcass. Tragically, she was put down. What is a bit shocking to me is that domestic cats have become infected with bovine tuberculosis …

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