The provisional estimates of new TB incidence in cattle for March 2010 are 10% lower than they were in March 2009 according to Defra. The increase in the number of herds tested over the same period means that there was a provisional overall decrease in the TB incidence rate. There was also a fall in the provisional average confirmed incidence rate from 4% to 3.8% for the same period.
There were a total of 9,497 tests on herds. There were 3,909 restricted herds and tests on 8,083 unrestricted herds 515 of which were new herd indicents. The number of cattle tested for TB totalled 859,117 of which 3,027 reactors and 78 contacts had to be slaughtered totalling 3,105 cattle.
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