TB Testing: From validation to eradication

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TB Testing: From validation to eradication
Apr 08, 2026
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Of all the scares and scandals around meat farming practices in the UK, few have been as persistent as been bovine TB. While we're nowhere near the 1930s estimate of the number of cattle infected, it's never really gone away. Why is that?

Dr. Neil Watt of MV Diagnostics joins us to cover where bovine TB has been hiding between outbreaks, how changes in testing may help pin it down, and why now might be the turning point on the management, maybe even eradication, of bovine TB in the UK.

Read the original paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.4241

Read more : https://www.mvdiagnostics.co.uk/


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