Research at a secret location in Devon may help eradicate bovine tuberculosis without a single badger being killed, says leading vetA pretty stone farmhouse sits in a bucolic green valley, surrounded by airy cowsheds. It looks like a timeless west country scene but is actually a pioneering farm, where cutting-edge science is helping to solve the hugely controversial, multimillion-pound problem of bovine tuberculosis (bTB).As an expanded badger cull gets under way this autumn, in which 33,500 animals will be killed to help stop the spread of the disease, a leading vet, Dick Sibley, believes this Devon farm demonstrates a way to eradicate the disease in cattle - without slaughtering any badgers. Continue reading...
As badger culls begin, could one pioneering vet's bovine TB test end the slaughter?
15. října 2017 1:17
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Celý článek: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/14/badger-culls-could-end-tuberculosis-trials-new-test
Zdroj: The Guardian