Article: Halt spread of Bovine TB ; The fundamental causes of bovine TB are the same as for TB in humans - overcrowding and living in unhygienic conditions.

The fundamental causes of bovine TB are the same as for TB in humans - overcrowding and living in unhygienic conditions.

In the slums of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, families were living seven or eight to a room and getting their water from a communal pump or well. Cups and plates were shared and only washed when absolutely necessary. Under these conditions TB was rife.

Today's practice of wintering cattle indoors in crowded conditions, sharing drinking bowls that the animals operate by depressing a lever with their muzzles in order to get a drink, guarantees that their mucous and any potential disease gets spread from one beast to ...

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