Effectiveness of badger culls

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Nov 2018 English Publisher:WileyJournal:Veterinary Record, volume 183, pages 628-628 (issn: 0042-4900, eissn: 2042-7670,

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Authors: Roger, Blowey;

doi: 10.1136/vr.k4914

pmid: 30467265

Effectiveness of badger culls

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I wish to respond to the letters by McGill and others ( VR , 27 October 2018, vol 183, pp 510-511; 10 November 2018, vol 183, p 574). The first letter states ‘… the badger cull has produced no measurable reduction in the percentage of TB-infected herds in the cull zones’, and the second that ‘… no data was published from matched control areas to mitigate for confounding factors’. Both statements require explanation. McGill and others are correct that in the crude data, expressed on a …

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Mustelidae, Animals, Cattle, Population Control, Tuberculosis, Bovine

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