While studying scavenger behavior in Utah’s Great Basin Desert, University of Utah biologists observed an American badger do something that no other scientists had documented before: bury an entire ...

Badger culling is unlikely to be a cost-effective way of helping control cattle TB in Britain, according to research published today in PLoS ONE. The authors of the study, from Imperial College London ...

“We are now beginning to identify how the transmission happens,” study coauthor Rosie Woodroffe of the Zoological Society of London told BBC News, “and that ought to open up an array of finely tuned ...

A study of bacterial DNA has provided the first clear evidence that tuberculosis (TB) can spread between cattle and badgers living near farms. Scientists mapped the genetic blueprints, or genomes, of ...

Tuberculosis in cattle and badgers passes between members of the same species at least twice as often than between cow and badger, a study has found. Researchers analyzing genetic data from the ...

Targeted vaccination and improved testing planned as part of drive to eradicate disease by 2038 ...

Badgers are not transmitting bovine tuberculosis (TB) to cattle through contact as the two species are never close proximity, a study has concluded. Over the past 40 years’ research has maintained ...

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is an important animal health and economic problem for the cattle industry and a potential zoonotic threat. Wild badgers (Meles meles) play a role on its epidemiology in some ...

The controversial culling of thousands of badgers to prevent them spreading disease to cattle risks backfiring. It turns out the animals travel much further around the countryside when culling begins, ...

A new Defra-backed badger vaccination field force is being rolled out in bTB hotspots as part of efforts to reduce disease ...