It estimated that approximately 85 per cent of the cattle and 82 per cent of the human population of Africa are in areas where bovine TB is only partly controlled or not at all. Bovine tuberculosis -- a form of tuberculosis (TB) commonly found in cattle -- is widespread throughout Africa and, despite its name, infects a variety of hosts, including wildlife, domestic livestock and humans. Although scientists have long acknowledged its existence, the rates of infection in cattle and people...

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But its the very boring-ness of the bovine, the dullness of the dairy denizen, that inspired Los Angeles photographer Glen Wexler to create The Secret Life of Cows a book of surreal images created with digital imaging technology, with a foreword by Monty Python member Eric Idle, and an exhibition now showing at Bergamot Stations Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica. But its the very boring-ness of the bovine, the dullness of the dairy denizen, that inspired Los Angeles photographer Glen Wexler...

Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) has been described by the Government as one of "most difficult animal health problems" to face the British farming industry. Latest statistics from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) show that, between January and the end of April this year, there were 741 new confirmed TB incidents in cattle in Great Britain, with a further 335 incidents still pending test results. Latest statistics from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural...

We should remember that the sanctity of life is equally important to all human beings and to allow this bullock to live with all the attendant risks to bovine and animal health in general is astounding. The first is that this decision is an absolute kick in the teeth for all those farmers who have had animals destroyed as part of the bovine TB controls, animals that have often taken generations of careful selective breed improvement to produce. Bovine TB is running wild in the livestock...