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Title

WILDLIFE AS VECTORS IN DISEASES: APPROACHES TO SOLVING THESE PROBLEMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Authors

Harry V. Thompson, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Field Research Station,Tangley Place, Worplesdon, Guildford, Surrey, GU3 3LQ, England

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

March 1978

Interest in wildlife diseases and their importance to man and his livestock has increased in the United Kingdom during the past decade. Reasons for this are given and particular reference made to the single occurrence of rabies outside quarantine in Britain, in 1969 (the first since 1922), and to the links between bovine tuberculosis in badgers and in cattle.