Sunday, July 11, 2010

Costs of bovine tuberculosis vaccination

Robstick has happened upon some interesting information on the vaccination projects


The government is committed to spending £6.6m on bovine tuberculosis vaccination research and £614,000 on the Badger Vaccine Deployment Project this year.  As the cost of the cull is £2,830 per badger, that £614K is the equivalent of culling just 219 badgers.


Next year it decreases to £418,000, equivalent to around 147 culled badgers.


Hopefully the vaccination will work well enough to divert funds from culling into vaccination projects.

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