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Bovine TB: The Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB |
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What is bovine TB? |
The Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB (ISG) is a group of independent scientists who advise the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on how best to tackle the problem of cattle TB. For ease of administration, this ISG section of the Defra website is organised by Defra officials, but this in no way alters the validity of the preceding statement on the independence of the ISG, who are solely responsible for its content. In their own words: 'The Independent Scientific Group on cattle TB was set up following the acceptance by Ministers of the recommendations contained in the Krebs Report (1997). From this it was clear that the problem of TB in cattle was extremely complex, still poorly understood and that previous policies to control the disease had been inadequate. It recognised that substantial further work was necessary if an informative framework was to be established that would be adequate to underpin an effective policy to control the disease in the future. 'The role of the ISG is to provide the scientific base for such a policy. From the outset we have adopted a holistic approach, recognising that sustainable control policies could only be achieved through a better understanding of the epidemiology of TB in cattle and wildlife reservoirs. Implicit in our approach is the recognition that the widespread elimination of badgers from large tracts of the countryside would not be politically or socially acceptable, hence we have sought to explore a much wider consideration of the problem and its possible solution(s)' From the Second Report of the ISG, January 2005 Latest news23 January 2006 - A list of all ISG Publications has been made available. 18 January 2006 - The agenda
15 December 2005 - The following letters and reports provide background to the ISG's most recent advice to Defra Ministers and Senior Officials about the proactive element of the Randomised Badger Culling Trial (RBCT). A letter dated 5 September 2005 Note: The figures in the ISG and statistical auditors' reports accompanying these letters differ very slightly from those now published in Nature, as a consequence of further data checking and analyses undertaken by the ISG since 29 September 2005. A further letter dated 7 October 2005
Two papers were published on 14 December 2005. The first, published in
Nature and entitled "Positive
and negative effects of widespread badger culling on cattle tuberculosis"
by Christl A. Donnelly et al. The second, published in the Journal of
Applied Ecology and entitled "Effects of culling on badger (Meles
meles) spatial organisation: implications for the control of bovine
TB. J Applied Ecology, 2005, 42, 852; doi 10.1111/j1365-2664.2005.01144.x."
by R. Woodroffe et al. More...
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