Author:
Macdonald David W.,Newman Chris
Abstract
AbstractAlthough for much of the 40 years that we have studied Wytham’s badgers, there was no sign of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) amongst them, they were at the heart of the controversy over management of this disease. The reason is that Wytham was used as the paradigm of an uninfected, unperturbed population. This chapter provides a crisp summary of the impact of Wytham’s badgers on thinking and policy, and especially the perturbation hypothesis. However, we do not dwell on well-rehearsed material: instead we take a fresh look at how the revelations in this book offer new thinking about bTB and its control. That insight is deepened because in recent years bTB has entered Wytham’s badgers, and we have studied its progress and initiated a vaccination programme.
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
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