Does risk to humans justify high cost of fighting bovine TB? (original) (raw)

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The UK government's strategy for controlling bovine tuberculosis (TB) is to work with stakeholders to reduce the economic impact of the disease and to maintain public-health protection, as well as animal health and welfare. In a nationwide programme, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is investing between £74 million and £99 million a year on continuing cattle surveillance and control, slaughterhouse inspections, heat treatment of milk, occupational-health controls and monitoring for human cases (see http://tinyurl.com/578s5x).

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1. Ross University, PO Box 334, St Kitts, West Indies
   Paul Torgerson
2. Institute for Parasitology, University of Zurich,, Switzerland
   Paul Torgerson
3. Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK
   David Torgerson

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Torgerson, P., Torgerson, D. Does risk to humans justify high cost of fighting bovine TB?.Nature 455, 1029 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4551029a

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• Published: 22 October 2008
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