Badger culls might increase cattle TB cases say professors

A group of professors from leading universities and zoological institutions across the UK have urged the Government to reconsider plans for a badger cull to tackle bovine TB.

More than 30 of the UK’s leading animal disease experts, including the president of the Zoological Society of London, Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, and professors from Oxbridge and Imperial College London, have written a letter to the Observer which argues culling badgers could increase the problem of TB in cattle.