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Quote: Originally posted by DeborahTurner on 10/4/2018

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I am HORRIFIED (but a bit fascinated) that you ate bread half eaten by unknown wild animals. But welcome, anyway

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Quote: Originally posted by DeborahTurner on 10/4/2018

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I am HORRIFIED (but a bit fascinated) that you ate bread half eaten by unknown wild animals. But welcome, anyway

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Quote: Originally posted by Nimrod7 on 10/5/2021

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If you wanted to catch TB then eating the remains of a loaf that a badger had partly eaten would be a perfectly practical way to do it. Badgers do carry tb in their saliva and do infect each other when they bite each other , often at base of the tail on the back or the neck,in territorial fights. This often leads to severe infection and the death of the badger. Not all badgers are infected and your loaf sharer may have been perfectly healthy. You can probably find out online the likely health status of badgers in your area. Call APHA on 03001000313 and they might be able to give you some general advice on whether badgers in that area are likely to be healthy. Might not give you details of disease on a specific farm.

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