Potential bovine TB breakthrough

[Katarina]

https://twitter.com/AberUni/status/1151853323143827458

 

[Tarw Coch]

For the benefit of those of us who aren’t “twits” what does it say?

 

[Will Blackburn]

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2019/07/title-224734-en.html …

 

[Lili]

Possible bovine TB vaccine I think. (They've found a test to differentiate between cattle that have the disease and those that have been vaccinated as I understood it)

 

[matthew]

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2019/07/title-224734-en.html

Glyn Hewinson has released a test to differentiate between vaccinated animals and those exposed to disease.

The problem with that is that no vaccine will protect a cow from the enormous challenge faced by the amount of bacteria excreted by badgers.
As in BCG for humans (or badgers), the disease is still there, but not so readily spread. Sometimes.

And it is no different in cattle, as Glyn Hewinson found out in a previous experiment.

https://bovinetb.blogspot.com/2012/10/bcg-vaccination-cattle.html

 

[multi power]

What a waste of time
Deal with the problem, not the symptoms

 

[Bill the Bass]

Does Tb vaccination in either cattle or badgers cover all strains of the disease?

 

[Pan mixer]

It was all on the farming programme this morning.

 

[multi power]

Does Tb vaccination in either cattle or badgers cover all strains of the disease?

Probably not
Vaccinating badgers isn't exactly practical
Vaccinating cattle, well we may as well go back to the BSE days

 

[matthew]

Does Tb vaccination in either cattle or badgers cover all strains of the disease?

AFAIK, BCG vaccination covers all strains of zoonotic Tuberculosis, and none of them very well.