Direct badger-cattle contact not source of Bovine TB transmission: ZSL Study

A study, led by Professor Rosie Woodroffe from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and published in the journal Ecology Letters, found that while badgers do favour cattle pasture as a habitat, they typically avoid cattle themselves and rarely get close enough to transmit infection directly. This suggests that transmission of Mycobacterium bovis - the bacterium ["]