A farmer at the centre of a bovine tuberculosis (TB) legal row with Defra has made a last-ditch bid to keep her prized alpaca alive.Helen MacDonald's alpaca, Geronimo, was ordered to be slaughtered after it failed two TB tests at her farm in Wickar, south Gloucestershire, in 2017.Geronimo was brought to the UK from a TB-free herd in New Zealand in August that year and, after he arrived, was given voluntary Enferplex (blood) surveillance testing as part of best practice promoted by the camelid industry.
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