Tag Archives: disease testing

Getting rid of bovine tuberculosis?

Posted on November 30, 2013 by argylesock

A farmer in my family told me, ‘People want clean meat.’ Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an infectious disease of cattle (Bos primigenius) caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. Our UK Government wants rid of bTB, because then the European Union … Continue reading →

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What the British government is doing about bovine tuberculosis

Posted on November 28, 2013 by argylesock

Did you think I’d stopped thinking about bovine tuberculosis (bTB)? I haven’t and nor has our Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Here are two announcements from DEFRA today. First announcement: There’s to be ‘zero tolerance’ of missed … Continue reading →

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Is the existing bovine TB eradication policy really working?

Posted on November 2, 2013 by argylesock

One of my favourite sources of information about bovine tuberculosis (bTB, caused by Mycobacterium bovis) is bovinetb.co.uk. Its unnamed author is ‘looking for the reform of a costly and misguided system.’ When I talk to farmers, I often hear support … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, ecology, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade | Tagged alpaca, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, disease testing, disease transmission, endemic disease, export, farmer, finance, food, food processing, food safety, history, human, knowledge, law, livestock, mammal, meat, milk, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, politics, ruminant, shooting, slaughter, trade, tuberculosis, vaccine, vertebrate, veterinary, welfare, wildlife, zoonosis | 19 Comments

The cost of slaughtering cows infected with bovine tuberculosis

Posted on September 13, 2013 by argylesock

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an infectious disease of cattle (Bos primigenius) caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. You might choose to follow the ‘tuberculosis’ tag on my blog. Last month, here in Britain our Department for Agriculture Food and Rural … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture, food, money and trade | Tagged bacterium, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, data, disease, disease testing, farmer, finance, food, food safety, grocery, livestock, meat, Mycobacterium bovis, ruminant, trade, tuberculosis, zoonosis | 5 Comments

Licensed to kill? Not a single badger has been shot two months into cull

Posted on August 17, 2013 by argylesock

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease which develops slowly, spreading from the lungs to other organs. In cattle (Bos primigenius) it’s called bovine tuberculosis (bTB), caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. Joanne Pugh at the Farmers Guardian explains how bTB works. … Continue reading →

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Bovine TB: Tough new rules to halt the spread of disease

Posted on August 13, 2013 by argylesock

Here in Britain some cattle (Bos primigenius) get bovine tuberculosis (bTB) and we want rid. Wild badgers (Meles meles) can get bTB. Some people think badgers spread the infection (Mycobacterium bovis) to cattle. Others think that we shouldn’t obsess about … Continue reading →

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Bees under threat from bumblebee imports

Posted on August 4, 2013 by argylesock

Here in Britain, some market gardeners and amateur gardeners import bumblebees to pollinate crops. Some of them are bringing in bee diseases. Scientists funded by the Natural Environment Research Council say that this may be killing our wild buff-tailed bumblebees … Continue reading →

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New Studies Confirm: Raw Milk A Low-Risk Food

Posted on July 3, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on Paper to Use:
(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Three quantitative microbial risk assessments (QMRAs) recently published in the Journal of Food Protection have demonstrated that unpasteurized milk is a low-risk food, contrary to previous, inappropriately-evidenced claims suggesting a high-risk…

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Update on Bovine TB and the UK Badger Cull

Posted on June 5, 2013 by argylesock

Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson, at Westminster Environment Secretary Owen Paterson (shown above) has described Bovine TB as ‘the most pressing animal health problem facing this country’. It has led to the slaughter…

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Cattle transport, not badgers, really causes bovine tuberculosis

Posted on May 23, 2013 by argylesock

Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:
This video from Britain says about itself: Watch this cute badger cub run round in circles with excitement as it sets off for an evening outing. From Wildlife Extra, about Britain: Defra statistics…

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