New Irish selective badger cull risks spreading bovine TB

Tuesday, June 10, 2014 - 11:22 in Health & Medicine

A new bovine TB control strategy to be piloted in Northern Ireland risks spreading the disease rather than supressing it, scientists warn. Researchers predict that culling badgers that test positive for TB could increase the movement of remaining badgers, potentially infecting more cattle with the disease.

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