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Farmers could do more to fight bTB, says strategy review

Experts call for 'tsar-type' figure to oversee policy, rapid vaccination roll-out, further funding and greater co-operation in order to meet 2038 eradication target

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Issuing an update to the Bovine TB Strategy, the review’s authors said it was ‘essential the problem of bovine TB is co-owned by the Government and the industry’
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Issuing an update to the Bovine TB Strategy, the review’s authors said it was ‘essential the problem of bovine TB is co-owned by the Government and the industry’

A major step change in the pace and scale of vaccinations, as well as a move away from the politicisation of the issue are needed if bovine TB is to be eradicated, a new report has revealed. Issuing...

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