Culling badgers is no way to stop the spread of bovine TB

The Ecologist
Jul 3, 2014, 5:13 am87 pts
Published in Nature today, a new cattle herd model shows how bTB infects cattle and how to halt its spread, writes Matt Keeling. Most effective is the slaughter of entire herds with even a single TB infection detected. Culling badgers has very little impact.

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