date:Jul 04, 2014
sease could be transmitted.
Whole-herd culls the culling of an entire cow herd if one animal tests positive for bovine TB would be the most effective way of stemming outbreaks of the disease, it suggested. Such culls could potentially reduce the number of instances of bovine TB by as much as 80% over six years, it said, but would require a huge increase (approximately 20 fold) in the number of cattle slaughtered in the first year of operation.
Last year, 32,691 cattle were slaughtered in the