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Tag Archives: Mycobacterium tuberculosis
A GM potato for Europe?
Here in the European Union (EU), farmers were allowed to grow two crops that had been genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered, GE, biotech). Now they’re only allowed to grow one of them. In July this year I said that whether … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged Agrobacterium tumefaciens, America, antibiotic, antibiotic resistance, BASF, biotechnology, Bt crop, carbohydrate, corn, crop, Dow, escaping transgene, Europe, European Food Safety Authority, farmer, feed, food, food processing, food safety, gene silencing, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, law, maize, maize 1507, maize MON810, Monsanto, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, nutrition, paper, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, potato Amflora, rice, Roundup Ready crop, soya, starch, Syngenta, textile, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, tuber
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Is the existing bovine TB eradication policy really working?
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
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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
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The badger cull – what we know and what we don’t know
Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an infectious disease of cattle (Bos primigenius) caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis. You could follow my ‘tuberculosis’ tag. Other animals can get bTB too. In Britain, some people think the native badger (Meles meles) is … Continue reading
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Tagged alien species, bacterium, badger, biosecurity, brushtail possum, cattle, data, deer, disease, farmer, foot and mouth disease, fox, history, knowledge, livestock, mammal, marsupial, mouse, mustelid, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, native species, poison, polecat, politics, research, reservoir, rodent, ruminant, shooting, shrew, squirrel, stoat, tuberculosis, vertebrate, vole, wildlife
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Tuberculosis in cattle and people
Here in Britain some cattle (Bos primigenius) get bovine tuberculosis (bTB). Symptoms are mild until after the bacterium (Mycobacterium bovis) spreads through the animal’s body. But even in its early stages bTB is a serious problem for the farmer. Bovine … Continue reading
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Tagged bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, disease, disease reservoir, disease transmission, food processing, food safety, history, human, law, livestock, mammal, milk, mustelid, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, notifiable disease, politics, research, ruminant, shooting, tuberculosis, vertebrate, wildlife
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Licensed to kill? Not a single badger has been shot two months into cull
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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Tagged bacterium, badger, bird, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, disease, disease testing, disease transmission, farmer, food safety, Heath_David, human, law, livestock, mammal, milk, Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, native species, notifiable disease, Paterson_Owen, politics, ruminant, shooting, transport, tuberculosis, vertebrate, veterinary, wildlife, zoonosis
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Tuberculosis: When the drugs don’t work
We’ve been talking about tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle (Bos primigenius) and badgers (Meles meles). But why do we care? We care because TB kills people, slowly and horribly. Poor people tend to get it. Until a few decades ago, rich … Continue reading
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Tagged bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, disease, disease transmission, human, livestock, mammal, milk, mustelid, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, notifiable disease, research, ruminant, tuberculosis, vertebrate, wildlife, zoonosis
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The transmission of tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB) in humans is a disease of poverty. The causative agent, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, spreads between people in droplets breathed out or sneezed out. I’ll never forget the disgust on my tutor’s face when she described handling sputum samples but … Continue reading
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Tagged air, bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, disease transmission, food safety, housing, livestock, mammal, milk, mustelid, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, notifiable disease, poverty, ruminant, shooting, transport, tuberculosis, vertebrate, wildlife, zoonosis
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