Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-s2hrs Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-03T01:34:04.734Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The great badgers and bovine TB debate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2003

M. HANCOX
Affiliation:
17 Nouncells Cross, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL5 1PT, UK
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Progress in politics and science often happens by serendipity, and an unforeseen effect of the 2001 foot and mouth epidemic will be its impact on bovine tuberculosis in three areas. Cattle TB will be much worse, increasing the risk to public health, and ‘the highly emotive and complex issue’ of badgers and TB may be resolved after 30 years controversy. A critical reappraisal of these three areas is worthwhile.

Type
Viewpoint
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press