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TB vaccine plan Gloucestershire Badger "vital"

August 7th, 2014 at 14:03 clock Updated BST

With expected that in the west of England, to begin the second year of the roof Pilot Peak in the coming weeks, the government says their vaccination project in Gloucestershire is always an essential part of the fight against bovine tuberculosis.

Now in its fifth year, scientists were vaccination badgers in an area of 100 km ² near Stroud.

However, the National Farmers Union, said Badger vaccines are not profitable enough.

Steve Knibbs research.

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