There are some people who you come across in life, whose names you never forget.
One such was MAFF vet Roger Muirhead MBE, MRCVS. A veteran of El Alamain and other skirmishes in wartime, Roger subsequently trained as a vet, as a mature student in Edinburgh and worked for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
His extensive obituary in both the veterinary press and the Telegraph describes his work on the link between TB positive cattle, to infected badgers which was published in the State Veterinary Journal in 1972.
Together with veterinary colleagues, we described Mr. Muirhead's work, in this 2013 posting, contrasting it with the cattle carnage carried out by the Cornish DVM of the time, William Tait.
Almost a decade later, as we explained in another posting, the creative intertia surrounding following up on the work so diligently done by Roger Muirhead and his colleagues almost 5 decades ago.
Now it seems a new generation of 'experts' seek to reinvent the wheel, without realising that if you do not learn from history then you are condemned to repeat it.
Thank you Dr. Muirhead, and all your colleagues, for the work you put in.
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