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The fight against bovine tuberculosis (TB) is gaining ground, says OSPRI.

FARMERS SHIFTING stock this season are urged to keep contact details and animal movements up to date.

FARMERS AND environmentalists alike are touting the benefits of planned aerial bovine tuberculosis (TB) control operations this winter in Waipunga near the Taupo to Napier highway.

ONLY ONE bovine tuberculosis (TB) infected herd remains in Northland.

TB FREE New Zealand says recent cases of the disease in two herds in the Rangitata/Orari area of South Canterbury were a West Coast strain.

WHOLE GENOME sequencing will give researchers a better understanding of bovine TB outbreaks, a paper presented at a recent Society of General Microbiology conference in the UK predicts.

TBfree New Zealand has joined forces with Northland Regional Council to warn people about the disease risk of illegally introducing wild pigs and deer into the region.

TWO CLUSTERS of TB infections on dairy farms in Taranaki this year are a reminder to farmers everywhere not to drop their guard on the disease, say industry representatives.

Herdowners should ensure service bulls they lease this season are tested for bovine tuberculosis (TB) before allowing them near their existing herd, says TBfree New Zealand.

All six of the Taranaki region's bovine tuberculosis (TB) infected herds showed no trace of the disease after the latest round of testing.