Tag: TB

Vet Ethics: A badger brouhaha

The badger is one of those animals to have shuffled its way into the human imagination. My first exposure to badger folklore was when my father told me that a harassed badger could be uncommonly fierce, and that, like a wolverine or a Tasmanian Devil, he packed a punch beyond […]

Source sought for Taronga’s TB

An expert panel led by NSW Health is continuing work to determine the source of a tuberculosis (TB) outbreak at Taronga Zoo. In February media reported the TB diagnosis of Pak Boon, one of Taronga’s elephants. In September Taronga issued a statement on its website which said a male chimp […]

Call for new thinking on disease prediction and planning

A University of Adelaide scientist says much more could be done to predict the likelihood and spread of serious disease – such as tuberculosis (TB) or foot-and-mouth disease – in Australian wildlife and commercial stock. Corey Bradshaw and colleagues have evaluated freely available software tools that provide a realistic prediction […]