Incidence of TB in UK Cattle - August 2009
UK - The provisional April 2008 estimate lies below the incidence rate for April 2007.
19 August 2009
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However, care needs to be taken not to read too much into a single month's figure, especially as this figure includes a high number of unclassified incidents. As such the incidence rates are subject to further revisions as more tests and their results are input.
Provisional statistics show a 1.4 per cent decrease in the number of new TB incidents in January - May 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. Combined with an increase in the number of herds tested over the same period, this equates to a provisional overall decrease in the TB incidence rate (new TB incidents, as a proportion of tests on unrestricted herds) of 7.1 per cent.
The provisional average confirmed incidence rate (confirmed new TB incidents, as a proportion of tests on unrestricted herds) was 4.1 per cent for January - May 2009, compared to 5.0 per cent for the same period in 2008.
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