Reductions in new outbreaks of bovine TB have been recorded in Gloucestershire and Somerset following the completion of licensed four-year badger culls, Farming…
Almost 300 camelids were slaughtered in Great Britain in 2017 after reacting positively to TB tests, the latest official figures show. Defra published…
An award-winning alpaca breeder is battling the Government to keep her animal alive after it tested positive for bovine tuberculosis (TB). She argues that the results were…
The fifth and final year of the department’s Test and Vaccinate or Remove (TVR) Wildlife Intervention Research Project commenced today in Northern Ireland.…
Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Robin Swann has lambasted Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) for its “continuing failure”…
Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has today announced the new chairman and first four members of its new…
TB’s advance appears to be slowing in Northern Ireland. Despite a slight increase in the region’s latest figures, the disease’s incidence rate still sits…
Co-infection – especially with liver fluke – could be desensitising existing TB tests, essentially putting control measures to waste as undetected infected animals…
