Talk on vaccinating badgers
VACCINATING badgers against bovine TB will be the hot topic of conversation in Nailsworth at the end of this week.
On Friday there will be an illustrated talk by Pete Bradshaw, the Stroud Area reserves manager for Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.
He was one of the first in the country to carry a licence, and to carry out the vaccination of badgers against TB on six Stroud nature reserves in 2011.
The event has been organised by the Stroud Area Group of the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.
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Anti-cull campaigners want vaccination used as an alternative method. The talk is at the Mortimer Room, in Nailsworth Library, Old Market, and it starts at 7.30pm.
Comments
by dodgethebulle
Tuesday, September 11 2012, 12:03PM
“Independent scientific studies have shown that culling would be of little help in reducing bovine TB, and even suggest that it could make things worse in some areas. To hear the facts, press play on the video below.
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by badgerhugger
Friday, September 07 2012, 4:10PM
“Good luck Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. The more people we can get to talk sense and spread the truth, the more chance the badgers have of survival.”
by dodgethebulle
Tuesday, September 04 2012, 3:08AM
“The official policy in Britain (and the rest of the European Union) is to eradicate bovine TB from cattle. This is laid out in 'The Bovine TB Eradication Programme For England' (DEFRA 2011b ). It is true that disease eradication has been achieved for smallpox in humans, and has recently been claimed for rinderpest in cattle. These diseases, however, have single maintenance hosts and hence eradication is a meaninful objective (CFSPH, 2008 ). But no disease with multiple maintenance hosts has ever been eradicated - and may never be. Moreover global eradication programmes are extremely expensive and can have very adverse side-effects, especially in relation to diverting resources from effective control methods (see Caplan, 2009 on 'Is eradication ethical?').
Even disease elimination - namely reduction to zero in the incidence of infection within a specified geographical area - is impractical when you have several wild maintenance hosts as with bovine TB. TB infected cattle can be removed using the 'test and cull' approach, with affected herds put under movement restriction and re-tested periodically to eliminate cattle that may shed the organism. But this approach cannot be used for wildlife reservoir species, which in Britain means badgers and fallow deer. Because sick badgers are more likely to get culled, large scale pro-active culls (actually a misuse of the term 'cull') may sometimes reduce the disease prevalence in badgers (Corner et al., 2008 ), but cannot possibly eliminate infections in a wild population, therefore given these facts, could it be the UK government has adopted a dysfunctional disease control policy merely to placate wealthy livestock farmers and avoid spending money?
If so, it is almost as unfair to farmers as it is to the badgers...
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