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<blockquote data-quote="matthew" data-source="post: 3731492" data-attributes="member: 169"><p>It is a slow burn disease for sure, but look up Burrough Farm Partnership, who several years ago headed a High Court challenge into their 400 + gamma reactors. This process took months and months. And failed. Defra took the lot . No lesions. No cultures. (From memory)</p><p>Another farm was instructed to skin test all cattle on the farm, in the usual computer generated letter. He complied quickly, including 30 something gamma reactors awaiting the result of this</p><p>Court case and which had been on the farm for months.</p><p>They passed. Defra still slaughtered them. No lesions.</p><p></p><p>PQs gave us 221 days from exposure to m.bovis to disease for U.K. strains.</p><p></p><p>Some vets think that positive gamma reactors which show no lesions and fail to culture, are animals which have met m.bovis and have beaten off the disease. They will still have antibodies. So what .Defra are doing is leaving any increasingly naive population of cattle, exposed to increasing levels of 'environmental' contamination....... as they so quaintly describe infected badgers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="matthew, post: 3731492, member: 169"] It is a slow burn disease for sure, but look up Burrough Farm Partnership, who several years ago headed a High Court challenge into their 400 + gamma reactors. This process took months and months. And failed. Defra took the lot . No lesions. No cultures. (From memory) Another farm was instructed to skin test all cattle on the farm, in the usual computer generated letter. He complied quickly, including 30 something gamma reactors awaiting the result of this Court case and which had been on the farm for months. They passed. Defra still slaughtered them. No lesions. PQs gave us 221 days from exposure to m.bovis to disease for U.K. strains. Some vets think that positive gamma reactors which show no lesions and fail to culture, are animals which have met m.bovis and have beaten off the disease. They will still have antibodies. So what .Defra are doing is leaving any increasingly naive population of cattle, exposed to increasing levels of 'environmental' contamination....... as they so quaintly describe infected badgers. [/QUOTE]
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