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Bovine TB
Created on: 2025-01-22
There's been a long standing belief, certainly in the UK, that bovine tuberculosis is spread to cattle by badgers, leading to massive badger culls to prevent this.
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However, this has been challenged.
Recently, the BBC aired a documentary on this. Here's a brief synopsis.
Brian May (guitar, Queen) has for a long time been a campaigner for the protection of badgers. As you might guess, some farmers whose families have been farming for generations were not keen on being taught their craft by someone whose best known credentials are in music (as epic as those might be).
However, May was in contact, as a campaigner, with other farmers conducting research on the bovine TB / badger connection.
The upshot of the research was this: