Bovine TB -- Ireland
New research suggests Ireland's increasing populations of sika deer may be linked to local outbreaks of bovine TB infection in cattle.
Researchers used county-level population densities, taken between 2000 and 2018, to track the 3 known maintenance hosts of TB in Ireland: cattle, badgers and sika deer. They then considered how variations in local densities compared with the variation in TB infection rates across the country, and also at county level.
Although TB infection rates have
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