Bovine TB: News archive
2009
19 March 2009
- The Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has today announced the initial outline for the Injectable Badger Vaccine Deployment Project in England
2008
2 December 2008
- The new Bovine TB eradication group for England met for the first time on 27 November. The page contains details of the group's membership and a highlight note from the first meeting.
26 November 2008
- The final report of the Southwest England and Cotswolds survey (PDF 2.65 MB) of tuberculosis in deer and a related Quantitative Risk Assessment (PDF 1.1 MB) of the risk posed to cattle by wild deer have been published.
- Information bulletin: Wild deer and Bovine TB.
3 November 2008
- The Environment Secretary, Hilary Benn, has today announced that Defra and the English Cattle Industry have agreed to form a new Bovine TB eradication group for England. This will be a joint Defra/Industry group.
- News release: New Bovine TB eradication group for England.
31 October 2008
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The final report (PDF 425 KB) of the Society for General Microbiology’s (SGM) Overview of Bovine Tuberculosis Research in the UK, and ‘Bovine Tuberculosis: An Update' (PDF 1.7 MB) a review by Tony Wilsmore and Nick Taylor have been published. Further information on these reports..
16 October 2008
- News story: Livestock markets roadshow.
30 July 2008
- Defra has published the note of the meeting held between former members of the Independent Scientific Group on cattle TB and the former Chief Scientific Advisor, Sir David King to discuss badgers and bovine TB in cattle, held on Thursday 13 December 2007. Links to correspondence between ex-members of the ISG and EFRA Select Committee and a published paper by Jenkins et al entitled, 'The effects of annual widespread badger culls on cattle TB following the cessation of culling' are also available.
25 July 2008
- Defra has published the final reports of research projects into methods of culling: gassing, shooting, cage trapping and shooting, and snaring.
7 July 2008
- Hilary Benn, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has today made a statement to Parliament about bovine TB and badgers, including that our policy will be not to issue licences to control bovine TB, increased investment in vaccines, and establishment of a bovine TB Partnership Group with industry.
- A news release has been issued and a copy of the statement is available here.
25 March 2008
- Updated 2007 year-end TB statistics for Great Britain are now available.
27 February 2008
- The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has published a report entitled Badgers and Cattle TB: Final Report of the Independent Scientific Group (a pdf version is also available). The oral and written evidence (a pdf version is also available) taken by the Committee has also been published. Defra welcomes the report, which Ministers will consider carefully alongside all other available evidence before coming to a decision on badger culling.
26 February 2008
- News release: National Livestock Markets Roadshow 2008.
- News release: Animal Health launches news alert service.
15 January 2008
- Information Bulletin: Bovine TB Science Advisory Body established.
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