Are we about to see the repeat of earlier failed TB strategies?

摘要

It's early July, the TV is showingflooded fields and houses, someSW dairy cattle are back insideat night and I'm trying to keepa low profile with myholidaymakers. Extra logs for thewood burner and don't mentionSpain! Well, TB is gone - and TB is stillhere. The former being Tony Blair,now sprouting angel's wings sincehis abdication; the latter, if the ISCreport is to be acted on, willdecimate the cattle industry whiledoing nothing about thetuberculous badgers which in 1995the Chief Veterinary Officer saidwere the cause of 90 per cent ofcattle breakdowns.