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Badger vaccine pilot planned by National Trust in Devon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13121520

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The National Trust is to vaccinate badgers against TB this summer in a bid to curb the disease in cattle - the first UK landowner to do so.
The trust hopes its Â£320,000, four-year project on Devon's Killerton estate will make the case for vaccination as an alternative to culling.
Cattle (or bovine) tuberculosis costs the UK about Â£100m each year.

Let us hope this does prove a viable alternative..

I'm wondering why there is as yet no vaccine for cows which would be far more convenient and less costly to implement.

Sadly though

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The government is set to approve badger culling in England soon, and the Welsh Assembly Government also plans a cull

Re: Badger vaccine pilot planned by National Trust in Devon

i hope no one is badgering them to do it :-x

Re: Badger vaccine pilot planned by National Trust in Devon