bovine tb @bovinetb
I present data on bovine TB mainly in the UK. I also tweet on other subjects which interest me like climate change & Freedom of Information. I strive to inform. bovinetb.info England, UK Joined July 2011-
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THE EVIDENCE What did England do? They got landowners to pay cull companies to cull badgers in HRA's. What did Wales do? They spent £5m of taxpayer's money to vaccinate badgers in Pembs. TB prevalence remained world leadingly high in Pembs whilst it substantially dropped in Eng
THE EVIDENCE What did England do? They got landowners to pay cull companies to cull badgers in HRA's. What did Wales do? They spent £5m of taxpayer's money to vaccinate badgers in Pembs. TB prevalence remained world leadingly high in Pembs whilst it substantially dropped in Eng https://t.co/9DMOmo0Efa
TB LEVELS IN HRA OF ENGLAND, ENGLAND & GB Number of badgers culled. bovinetb.info/docs/number_of…
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THE "SCIENCE" BUT NOT THE DATA What does the data show? Here's how many badgers have been reported culled. bovinetb.info/docs/number_of…. Here's how overall bovine TB levels have changed in Cull Zones 1 to 10 and 11 to 21 whilst badgers have been culled.
THE "SCIENCE" BUT NOT THE DATA What does the data show? Here's how many badgers have been reported culled. bovinetb.info/docs/number_of…. Here's how overall bovine TB levels have changed in Cull Zones 1 to 10 and 11 to 21 whilst badgers have been culled. https://t.co/Ri40KLcVWE
NO REDUCTION IN BOVINE TB SAYS @ProtectTheWild_ The following table shows in detail how many badgers have been reported culled. bovinetb.info/docs/number_of… The following graphs show how overall bTB levels have changed in Cull Zones 1 to 10 & 11 to 21 whilst badgers have been removed
NO REDUCTION IN BOVINE TB SAYS @ProtectTheWild_ The following table shows in detail how many badgers have been reported culled. bovinetb.info/docs/number_of… The following graphs show how overall bTB levels have changed in Cull Zones 1 to 10 & 11 to 21 whilst badgers have been removed https://t.co/HGmr5UFxmb
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A pretty accurate analysis of the current situation with regards to TB in this area by the ICSA. It's very difficult to look beyond the increases in TB in cattle as badger vaccination is expanded. farmersjournal.ie/badger-vaccina…
THE LINK BETWEEN BADGERS AND CATTLE The following table shows in detail how many badgers have been reported culled. bovinetb.info/docs/number_of… The following graphs show how overall bovine TB levels have changed in Cull Zones 1 to 10 and 11 to 21 whilst badgers have been removed.
THE LINK BETWEEN BADGERS AND CATTLE The following table shows in detail how many badgers have been reported culled. bovinetb.info/docs/number_of… The following graphs show how overall bovine TB levels have changed in Cull Zones 1 to 10 and 11 to 21 whilst badgers have been removed. https://t.co/kgTnwvUn0B
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WELL DONE WALES? For what? Maintaining high New Herd Incidence whilst slaughtering a large proportion of cattle? This should lead to a reduction in herd incidence, not maintain it at a high level! Wales are not leading the way in science. They are demonstrating how to fail.
WELL DONE WALES? For what? Maintaining high New Herd Incidence whilst slaughtering a large proportion of cattle? This should lead to a reduction in herd incidence, not maintain it at a high level! Wales are not leading the way in science. They are demonstrating how to fail. https://t.co/i2tcFbsoXZ
PATHETIC NUMBER OF BADGERS VACCINATED According to an article published in MRCVSonline on 16th April 2024, in England, data for 2023 has revealed that a pathetic total of just 3,064 badgers were vaccinated ... or perhaps more accurately doses administered? mrcvs.co.uk/en/news/23418/…
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NUMBER OF BADGERS REMOVED UP TO END OF 2023 In England 230,128 badgers have been reported culled between 2013 & 2023. Nine of first 10 zones (90%) have failed to reach the advised min for at least one year. No breaches of the advised max have occurred. bovinetb.info/docs/number_of…
DON'T BE AN IDIOT Get educated by taking the trouble to look at the data.
DON'T BE AN IDIOT Get educated by taking the trouble to look at the data. https://t.co/QVmB49YMcc
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@bovinetb Vaccination will only work with a vaccine that truly works, which is not going to be BCG. In the short term it seems that culling is the only option. I don't like it, but accept there is a need.
@bovinetb @MarkAvery 9000 GB herds infected seems high. The important status of the badger is a huge consideration affecting control, the NZ possum is a pest. Few realise the effort gone into taking that into account, Alick certainly doesn’t. But even with that factor the reduction is promising…
@bovinetb @MarkAvery Then at the end he recognises how TB must be controlled but offers no ideas other than “objective examination”. Finally after 30 years we have a policy that is bearing fruit, slowly for sure, but that is the nature of TB - look at NZ. It’s playing to a gallery.
@bovinetb I recall how Alick was blogging in favour of the badger cull when it started. Comparison with FMD is fatuous. Elimination is not the aim …if we get to the position of 1986 with a few hundred reactors that is success. But he has to appeal to @MarkAvery polarised audience.
These people are of the scale bonkers 🤦🏼♀️
THE "SCIENCE" BUT NOT THE DATA What does the data show? Here's how many badgers have been reported culled. bovinetb.info/docs/number_of…. Here's how overall bovine TB levels have changed in Cull Zones 1 to 10 and 11 to 21 whilst badgers have been culled.
A pretty accurate analysis of the current situation with regards to TB in this area by the ICSA. It's very difficult to look beyond the increases in TB in cattle as badger vaccination is expanded. farmersjournal.ie/badger-vaccina…
@greywhisker @bovinetb If it's to do with trade, why does the TB risk map of the country look like this? Does no-one in the NE of England, or the whole of Scotland, buy or move cattle? This looks to me much more like infected badgers moving N and W.
@bovinetb That last sentence..... 'There is also a vaccine now that stops cattle from getting TB.' Though the first sentence is pretty rubbish too. Extraordinary to be so confident and dogmatic while actually having so little knowledge. What is it with bTB that makes people do this?
@bovinetb Ask how many were vaccinated in Wales where it was to be a main plank of their policy….. theguardian.com/environment/20…
@bovinetb Badger vaccination was never done with any particular desire to protect badgers, it was purely an attempt to prevent culling. Culling can rid badgers of TB, but vaccination cannot.
@bovinetb @MilesKing10 @monkeymyshkin Self sustaining badger TB will be down to population density. Or social distancing to put it into current parlance. Hence culls to reduce. This talk of "badger extinction" is such political gaming with the general public. False news that ultimately makes both species worse off.
@DenLeonard @greywhisker @bovinetb Don't waste your time, Den. x.com/greywhisker/st… He's big on opinions, small on knowledge.
@greywhisker @bovinetb Please read my twitter posts to explain the way forward, which mirrors all other successful TB eradication schemes globally (i.e. using existing cattle test methodology but reducing wildlife reservoir TB R° to <1.0 as well).
@bovinetb The article summary explains that vaccinated cattle still get TB, but with less severity. Which is of almost no use in the UK (because we test and cull infected cattle). It remains a red herring only of benefit to cowardly can-kicking politicians.
@terrierview @GarethEnticott @Philvet123 @sjtomo157 @FarmersGuardian @UKLabour @FGRachaelBrown @DefraGovUK @SteveReedMP Absolutely, any honest broker looking at TB control would view the procrastination in policy development to tackle bovine TB as a mistake, it has led to massive increases in TB in cattle and wildlife, all unnecessary to satisfy those who want to protect badgers
@PhilLatham @GarethEnticott @Philvet123 @sjtomo157 @FarmersGuardian @UKLabour @FGRachaelBrown @DefraGovUK @SteveReedMP The perturbation argument stopped any badger TB control from 2007 to 2013. It added hugely to the costs of the current culls. It has probably meant more badgers were culled.
This picture symbolises to me a lot of what is wrong with TB control. 11 separate letters arrived in the post this morning to say “of the 91 animals slaughtered after testing in Jan, 0 VL’s found!” I now have 8-38 days to schedule my next SIT with vets who book up 4-6 weeks out.
@DJ_Renney @SwaledaleMutton I’m no expert but have following the debate and I thought the evidence to support badger culling in controlling bovine TB was now pretty robust. (And hedgehog populations recovered rapidly as well)
@bovinetb Reminded of when they used to claim that the whole of the UK had a population of only 50,000 badgers.
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