Humans can catch bTB, but public health control measures, including milk pasteurisation and the BCG vaccine, mean it is not a significant risk to human health. The disease affects cattle and other farm animals (including pigs, goats, deer, sheep, alpacas and llamas), some species of wildlife including badgers and deer, and some domestic pets such as cats. Geographically, bTB has spread from isolated pockets in the  late 1980s to cover large areas of the west and south-west of England and Wales in the 2010s. Some people believe this correlates with the lack of badger control. In October 2013, culling in England was controversially trialled in two pilot areas in west Gloucestershire and west Somerset. The main aim of these trials was to assess the humaneness of culling using "free shooting" (previous methods trapped the badgers in cages before shooting them). The trials were repeated in 2014 and 2015, and expanded to a larger area in 2016 and 2017. In 2019, there was no UK-wide policy of badger culling; however in 2020 it was proposed to extend the areas in which culls took place to include parts of Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire, with a view to killing some 60,000 animals.Badger cull extended in England with more than 60,000 in line of fire 7 September 2020 www.theguardian.com, accessed 11 November 2020
Humans can catch bTB, but public health control measures, including milk pasteurisation and the BCG vaccine, mean it is not a significant risk to human health. The disease affects cattle and other farm animals (including pigs, goats, deer, sheep, alpacas and llamas), species of wildlife including badgers and deer, and even domestic pets such as cats. Geographically, bTB has spread from isolated pockets in the UK in late 1980s to cover large areas of the west and south-west of England and Wales in the 2010s. In October 2013, culling in England was controversially trialled in two pilot areas in west Gloucestershire and west Somerset. The aim of these trials was to assess the “humaneness” of culling using "free shooting" (previous methods trapped the badgers in cages before shooting them). The trials were repeated in 2014 and 2015, and expanded to a larger area in 2016 and 2017. In 2019, there was no UK-wide policy of badger culling; however in 2020 it was proposed to extend the areas in which culls took place to include parts of Oxfordshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire, with a view to killing some 60,000 animals.Badger cull extended in England with more than 60,000 in line of fire 7 September 2020 www.theguardian.com, accessed 11 November 2020
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