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Dr. Neil Watt discusses the persistent issue of bovine TB in the UK and the potential for improved testing to aid in its management and eradication.
Of all the scares and scandals around meat farming practices in the UK, few have been as persistent as been bovine TB. While we're nowhere near the 1930s estimate of the number of cattle infected, it's never really gone away. Why is that? Dr. Neil Watt of MV Diagnostics joins us to cover where bovine TB has been hiding between outbreaks, how changes in testing may help pin it down, and why now might be the turning point on the management, maybe even eradication, of bovine TB in the UK. Read t...
People in this episode
Guest: Dr. Neil Watt
Topics covered
- bovine TB
- cattle health
- meat farming practices
- disease management
- testing methods
- eradication efforts
Keywords
- bovine TB
- cattle
- testing
- eradication
- UK
- disease management
- MV Diagnostics
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Organizations: MV Diagnostics
Places: UK
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