Vaccinating all children for 80 plus years has not given humans immunity to measles, shown by the big out-break in south Wales a few years ago.

It will obviously not give badgers immunity to TB either. It is far more likely to be causing their TB to mutate and become even more infectious, to counteract the vaccine.

As shown by the big increase in cattle infections – in spite of all the vicious restrictions imposed on farmers and a few years ago 34 cows and a three week old calf infected on a farm that had never had TB before, and does not have any of the conditions that are officially claimed to be the cause of infection spreading. For the calf to be infected at such a young age is apparently unprecedented.

Two years ago people in Greenham Common, Berkshire were infected by their cats – thought to be the first time ever in the world. The cats were thought to have been in fights with badgers.

A few years ago a new drug resistant strain of TB was found among humans in Asia. If it can do this in humans there is no reason why it will not do the same in badgers. In December 2015 a gene that makes bacteria’s drug resistant was found in Chinese chickens and has already been found in humans in Europe and here – thought to have come from imported chicken meat.

It will certainly get into badgers through people feeding them or from waste in rubbish bogs, and then make their TB incurable.

Dogs are banned from public parks, playing fields and some beaches, because of the risk of infection from their droppings. Badgers are far more dangerous because their infection comes from saliva and urine, which cannot be seen and avoided.

It can only be time before a child or children get badger TB by playing on grass in gardens or public parks that has been infected by badgers, and it will likely prove to be incurable.

C V Cataeux

Goodwick