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| Badger TB vaccinations 'showing results' across Wales | Badger TB vaccinations 'showing results' across Wales |
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| Measures against the spread of TB in cattle are starting to show results, according to the chief veterinary officer for Wales. | Measures against the spread of TB in cattle are starting to show results, according to the chief veterinary officer for Wales. |
| Prof Christianne Glossop said it was too early to determine the impact of the badger vaccination programmes in Pembrokeshire. | Prof Christianne Glossop said it was too early to determine the impact of the badger vaccination programmes in Pembrokeshire. |
| Speaking at the Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd, Powys, she said incidents of TB have fallen by 28%. | Speaking at the Royal Welsh Show in Llanelwedd, Powys, she said incidents of TB have fallen by 28%. |
| She added, a 45% cut in animals being culled had left 94% of herds TB free. | She added, a 45% cut in animals being culled had left 94% of herds TB free. |
| 'TB is expensive' | |
| The five-year vaccination programme has one year remaining, with results not expected for another two years. | The five-year vaccination programme has one year remaining, with results not expected for another two years. |
| Prof Glossop said that the cost of vaccination could be reduced by providing grants to farmers and landowners to carry out some of the labour work themselves. | |
| She said: "TB is expensive. This year we're spending £25 million in Wales on cattle testing, on compensation to farmers, on breakdown management, on a new programme we're rolling out to get private vets more involved in supporting their clients. | |
| "So against that backdrop the notion that vaccinating badgers is expensive, it's just one piece of the whole programme." | |
| Prof Glossop added the most expensive part of vaccinating was labour - walking fields, finding the badgers and catching them. | |
| "If the farmer could put in some of the labour, or the landowner, then actually some of that cost gets chopped away," she said. |