Independent scientific reviews

and official documents on 1080

Poor livestock management

Spreads infection via movement of stock
May increase infection via stress and poor hygiene

2015	Livingstone, P.G., Hancox, N., Nugent, G. & de Lisle, G.W.	NZ Veterinary Journal 63 (Supp 1):4-18	Toward eradication: the effect of Mycobacterium bovis infection in wildlife on the evolution and future direction of bovine tuberculosis management in New Zealand	“the number of infected herds and the AIHP increased to 92 and 0.21% respectively in 2012/13, but close investigation revealed livestock movement and the establishment of new dairy herds as the main driver of this increase.”
2010	Animal Health Board	P 46	AHB Annual Research Report 2009-2010	“This research was undertaken to determine the most likely causes of livestock TB persistence between 1995 and 2007 at Blythe Valley, in spite of the area’s low possum population…The study concluded that the cause of TB in livestock was likely to have been within-herd transmission and further outbreaks are likely to be detected through regular herd testing.”
2009	Humblet, M.F., Boschiroli, M.L., & Saegerman, C.	Veterinary Research 40 (5): Sep – Oct	Classification of worldwide bovine tuberculosis risk reactors in cattle: a stratified approach	“During a matched case-control study including 80 chronic bTB herds carried out in 1990 in Ireland, Griffin et al. demonstrated that an animal’s resistance to tuberculosis was reduced by a shortage of feed and/or an unbalanced diet”
2009	Humblet, M.F., Boschiroli, M.L., & Saegerman, C.	Veterinary Research 40 (5): Sep – Oct	Classification of worldwide bovine tuberculosis risk reactors in cattle: a stratified approach	“It was reported in a 1993-case-control study on 160 Irish farms that spreading of slurry on pasture without prior storage presents a higher probability of bTB occurrence in the herd than on farms producing other types of manure or storing the slurry before spreading; cattle can indeed become infected through the digestive route or after inhalation of contaminated aerosols during the spreading of slurry.”
2015	Buddle, B.M., de Lisle, G.W., Griffin, J.F.T. & Hutchings, S.A.	NZ Veterinary Journal 63/1:19-27	Epidemiology, diagnostics, and management of tuberculosis in domestic cattle and deer in New Zealand in the face of a wildlife reservoir	“The decrease in TB herd prevalence from 92 herds at 30 June 2001 to five herds at 30 June 2012…was largely the result of an increased uptake and frequency of testing”