Bovine TB not passed on through direct contact with badgers, research shows

Contact comes through contaminated pasture and dung, with significant implications for farming practices What rural issues are important to you? Badgers and cattle never came into close contact during a new field study examining how tuberculosis (TB) is transmitted between the animals.Most TB in cattle is contracted from other cattle but some infections come from badgers. The new research indicates that the disease is not passed on by direct contact, but through contaminated pasture and dung, with potentially significant implications for farm practices such as slurry spreading. Continue reading...