The February 2011 estimate for the incidence of TB in cattle was above the rate for the same month last year. New incidents were up 13% on January-February 2010. There was also an increase in the number of herds tested giving the provisional overall increase in TB incidence (new TB incidents as a proportion of tests on OTF herds) of 5.3%. The average incidence rate for herds from which the OTF status has been withdrawn was 3.6% (OTF-officially TB free).
There were a total of 8,098 tests on herds and 734,049 cattle tests resulting in 456 new herd incidents. There were 2,927 reactors and 21 direct contacts giving a total of 2,948 slaughtered cattle.
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