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摘要

The UK government's strategy for controlling bovine tuberculosis (TB) is to work with stakeholders to reduce the economic impact of the disease and to maintain public-health protection, as well as animal health and welfare. In a nationwide programme, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is investing between ￡74 million and ￡99 million a year on continuing cattle surveillance and control, slaughterhouse inspections, heat treatment of milk, occupational-health controls and monitoring for human cases (see http://tinyurl. com/578s5x).