All Tb Measures Pointless Unless Badgers Included ; It Seemed Rather Strange to Be Back On the Front Page of the Paper Last Week, Even If the Occasion for My Brief Return to Prominence - Badgers and Bovine Tb - Was All Too Grimly Familiar.

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It seemed rather strange to be back on the front page of the paper last week, even if the occasion for my brief return to prominence - badgers and bovine TB - was all too grimly familiar.

However, it does give me the opportunity to discuss the research project, on whose findings I was commenting, in rather more detail, and to look at where we are with some of the other measures being considered, not so much for bringing the disease under control, as to slow its headlong rush through the British countryside.

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All Tb Measures Pointless Unless Badgers Included ; It Seemed Rather Strange to Be Back On the Front Page of the Paper Last Week, Even If the Occasion for My Brief Return to Prominence - Badgers and Bovine Tb - Was All Too Grimly Familiar.

The research in question was carried out in North Yorkshire by a group of scientists from the Scottish Agricultural Colleges and the University of York. It involved fitting three groups of badgers and one group of cattle with so-called proximity data loggers, which measured how often they...

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