Musician Brian May has led a 10-year study to combat bovine TB spread and help end badger culling.
Sir Brian May, a long-time animal campaigner, says speaking out against badger culling is "as important to me as music"
A leading vet said May's findings could not be viewed in isolation, while a farmer who has lost 500 of his herd to the disease said badgers "do contribute" to the bTB problem.A badger culling programme in England to combat bTB began 11 years ago. Widespread badger culling is not used in Wales, Scotland or
"At the root of it all there are certain principles which need to be followed which are really keeping the pathogen from progressing throughout a herd, cutting off its line of transmission," the musician and campaigner said. Working with vet Dick Sibley at Gatcombe Farm in Devon, May's research suggested that the standard bTB skin test did not detect all instances of the disease in cattle that could be captured with enhanced testing.
"Did that case study prove that badgers have no role to play in the bovine TB equation? No, I don’t agree with that conclusion." "It’s very interesting what Brian May and Dick Sibley have done but my opinion of TB is that it’s a very complex, complicated disease," he said.
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