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Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2023)

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Bovine viral diarrhoea (BVD) is an endemic disease in the UK. In England, a voluntary control and eradication scheme, BVDFree England, has been running since 2016. Methods We analysed test results from 7005 herds that were submitted to BVDFree England between 2016 and 2023 to investigate changes in the prevalence of BVD in ...
Naomi S. Prosser   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of culling on badger abundance : implications for tuberculosis control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Culling is often considered as a tool for controlling wildlife diseases that can also infect people or livestock. Culling European badgers Meles meles can cause both positive and negative effects on the incidence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in cattle ...
Ballantyne E.E.   +12 more
core   +1 more source

Lessons learned and lingering uncertainties after seven years of chronic wasting disease management in Norway

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is well known among cervids in North America. Nevertheless, management faced different types and degrees of uncertainty when CWD was first detected in reindeer Rangifer tarandus in Nordfjella, Norway in 2016. We present a timeline of the efforts to control CWD, and identify how the process, measurement, environmental, and ...
Atle Mysterud   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bovine Tuberculosis and Badger Control in Britain: Science, Policy and Politics

open access: yes, 2017
Bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB) is the most economically important animal health policy issue in Britain. The problem of what to do about badgers has plagued successive governments since a dead badger was discovered with bovine TB in 1971.
S. McCulloch, M. Reiss
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Role of Cattle Movements in Bovine Tuberculosis Spread in France between 2005 and 2014

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Live animal movements are a major transmission route for the spread of infectious agents such as Mycobacterium bovis, the main agent of bovine Tuberculosis (bTB). France became officially bTB-free in 2001, but M.
A. Palisson   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Learning about a Moving Target in Resource Management: Optimal Bayesian Disease Control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Resource managers must often make difficult choices in the face of imperfectly observed and dynamically changing systems (e.g., livestock, fisheries, water, and invasive species).
Fackler, Paul L   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Resource‐driven changes in wild boar movement and their consequences for the spread of African Swine Fever in the Russian Far East

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Knowledge of animal movement patterns is invaluable to understanding the spread of diseases among wildlife populations. One example is the recent African swine fever (ASF) outbreak among wild boar Sus scrofa populations across East Asia, where there is a lack of information on movements of this species.
Scott J. Waller   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Epidemiological status of bovine tuberculosis in the Federal District of Brazil

open access: yesSemina: Ciências Agrárias, 2016
Considering the implementation of the National Program for the Control and Eradication of Animal Brucellosis and Tuberculosis (PNCEBT) in 2001, and the need to determine the epidemiological status of animal tuberculosis for future evaluation of the ...
Lucílio Antônio Ribeiro   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge of Bovine Tuberculosis, Cattle Husbandry and Dairy Practices amongst Pastoralists and Small-Scale Dairy Farmers in Cameroon

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
Background Control of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) and zoonotic tuberculosis (zTB) has relied upon surveillance and slaughter of infected cattle, milk pasteurisation and public health education.
R. Kelly   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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