News Fresh Today: First National Model for Bovine TB Calls for More Focus on Cattle in Great Britain

Saturday, 5 July 2014

First National Model for Bovine TB Calls for More Focus on Cattle in Great Britain

A team of researchers based at the University of Warwick has produced the first national model to investigate the bovine TB spread in a study published in emNature /emthis week. The results derived from the model in the emNature/em paper, entitled "A dynamic model of bovine tuberculosis spread and control in Great Britain", demonstrated that the majority of herd outbreaks are caused by multiple transmissions routes - including failed cattle infection tests, ...