tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885842.post6888868163129059819..comments2023-07-15T10:28:46.810+01:00Comments on Bovine TB: More on BambiRichardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02561483930556493363noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885842.post-44252893978080464082008-12-09T19:31:00.000+00:002008-12-09T19:31:00.000+00:00Dear JimBecause it's NOT EFFECTIVE to kill wildlif...Dear Jim<BR/>Because it's NOT EFFECTIVE to kill wildlife.<BR/>I do wonder what is it about this simple fact (now proved over and over again at the cost of tens of thousands of badgers' lives) that the pro-cull lobby finds so hard to understand?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885842.post-48154467449133319762008-12-03T17:51:00.000+00:002008-12-03T17:51:00.000+00:00On badger vaccination, the silence of the badger g...On badger vaccination, the silence of the badger groups is deafening.<BR/><BR/>In an answer (of sorts) to Geoffrey Cox MP at the recent EFRAcom meeting, Gabrielle Edwards admitted that in an endemically infected population, vaccination efficacy would be compromised.<BR/><BR/>As in not work at all? <BR/>As in slower? How slow? <BR/>Or as in infection + vaccination = double dose of bacteria = death.<BR/><BR/>For injectable delivery, how are candidate animals receiving their jab to be marked?<BR/>Is the vaccine a one off, or to be administered annually?<BR/>How is oral bait to be delivered to all members of the group, and not just the alpha member(s)?<BR/>And how is such bait to be kept away from cattle either as virgin peanuts, scattered by birds etc., or recycled through badgers into field latrines?<BR/><BR/>As the minister is hanging his hat on vaccination, we are curious.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09293505337441558637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885842.post-58956895478976419232008-12-02T21:42:00.000+00:002008-12-02T21:42:00.000+00:00Anon 11.30: ...and cattle get TB from badgers. M...Anon 11.30: ...and cattle get TB from badgers. Moreover, as previous comments on this blog have pointed out, cattle don't give it to other cattle very easily (or, I imagine, to deer). See Defra's own studies.<BR/><BR/>But the main point surely is this: Until we get on top of all sources of infection, we are never going to eradicate TB. Why should it be only our cattle that have to be killed? I still find it hard to comprehend the irresponsibility of the badger lobby in failing to face up to this simple fact. (Yes, we would all much rather have an effective vaccine, but that is still years away, and we're facing a record 40K cattle expected to be slaughtered this year.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6885842.post-86982404732031871772008-11-30T11:30:00.000+00:002008-11-30T11:30:00.000+00:00Yep, deer and badgers get TB from cattle, as do nu...Yep, deer and badgers get TB from cattle, as do numerous other species of mammals all over the world.<BR/><BR/>When TB prevalence in the host species (cattle) goes down, the prevalence in wildlife (badgers) goes down too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com