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Badgers + TB true or false

artieanna · 2007-02-17 23:54:04

Just after seeing badgers mentioned in other thread, I'm curious, does anyone know are badgers definitly carriers of Tuberculosis. Over the years as farmers we have had cases of TB in our herd and are told by dept' agri' officials that badgers are known carriers. They apparently sometimes trap badgers and test them.... We…

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Just after seeing badgers mentioned in other thread, I'm curious, does anyone know are badgers definitly carriers of Tuberculosis. Over the years as farmers we have had cases of TB in our herd and are told by dept' agri' officials that badgers are known carriers. They apparently sometimes trap badgers and test them....

We have badgers and a number of very complex tunnels on a part of our land, would never report this as we think they should be left alone....

Anyone have views on this...

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