Two people in the UK develop TB caught from domestic cats

They're just announcing this on Sky - I'll look out for more details on it. I do hope this isn't true - some people want any excuse to 'cull' animals...

Tesstacious wrote:They're just announcing this on Sky - I'll look out for more details on it.   I do hope this isn't true - some people want any excuse to 'cull' animals...

Cull the lot of em I say.

Dogs too - they are all an unnecessary blight on this country.

I love cats, I would risk having them around even if there were a risk..

does this mean they should cull foreigners who bring diseases in to Britain...

BigAndy9 wrote:

Tesstacious wrote:They're just announcing this on Sky - I'll look out for more details on it.   I do hope this isn't true - some people want any excuse to 'cull' animals...

Cull the lot of em I say.

Dogs too - they are all an unnecessary blight on this country.

Go fuck yourself.

Godisgoodallthetime wrote:I love cats, I would risk having them around even if there were a risk..

does this mean they should cull foreigners who bring diseases in to Britain...

I asked a similar question a couple of months ago God.

We put animals down for the smallest of things.

Why do we not put people down?

Tesstacious wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:


Cull the lot of em I say.

Dogs too - they are all an unnecessary blight on this country.

Go fuck yourself.

Make me.

BigAndy9 wrote:

Godisgoodallthetime wrote:I love cats, I would risk having them around even if there were a risk..

does this mean they should cull foreigners who bring diseases in to Britain...

I asked a similar question a couple of months ago God.

We put animals down for the smallest of things.

Why do we not put people down?

I remember doing a thread called they shoot horses don't they, obviously about life quality and where and when to end a human life if they want, I don't think it went too well...

the fact remains though that the foreigners have brought diseases with them and I guess it can only get worse..

From June last year:


A study at University of Edinburgh found that the disease, which is caused by a bacterial infection, is more common among domestic cats than previously thought.


Experts estimated that up to 100 out of every 100,000 cats could be infected with Mycobacteria, which include those that can cause tuberculosis, with around a fifth of these being the bacterium found in cattle and badgers.


Veterinarians believe domestic cats could be catching the disease by venturing into badger setts or from rodents that have been in badger setts. They could also catch it directly from cattle or from infected milk.


While the findings may raise fears that domestic pets are helping to spread TB among cattle, vets said the risk to human health was of greater concern.


Most people in Britain have been vaccinated against tuberculosis with the BCG jab, which should offer protection against bovine TB. However, a growing number of people have not been inoculated.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/petshealth/10150363/Cats-being-infected-with-TB-could-be-risk-to-owners-vets-warn.html

andy,if your feeling alone and un-loved get a cat or dog and see what your missing!

nicko wrote:andy,if your feeling alone and un-loved get a cat or dog and see what your missing!

I tend to hang around humans, mainly.


edit: and cats and dogs would tend to hang around their own species, if humans would only let them...

Two people have caught tuberculosis after contact with infected cats, public health experts have warned. It is the first time that TB has been transmitted from cats to humans.

Public Health England (PHE) and the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) investigated an outbreak of TB in nine cats in Berkshire and Hampshire last year. As a precaution, 39 people who had been in close contact with the animals, were offered TB screening. Two were found to have the active disease with exactly the same strain of Mycobacterium bovis carried by the cats.

http://news.sky.com/story/1232837/tb-humans-catch-disease-from-domestic-cats

BigAndy9 wrote:

Tesstacious wrote:They're just announcing this on Sky - I'll look out for more details on it.   I do hope this isn't true - some people want any excuse to 'cull' animals...

Cull the lot of em I say.

Dogs too - they are all an unnecessary blight on this country.

Wish we could 'cull' you!!!!
  

SEXY MAMA wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:


Cull the lot of em I say.

Dogs too - they are all an unnecessary blight on this country.

Wish we could 'cull' you!!!!
  

I have been culled - there were lots of me 50 years ago.

Now I stand alone.   

Well, now it's time to finish the job!

Sassy wrote:Well, now it's time to finish the job!

Put em up!  ::lightsab:: 

No, I'd have an unfair advantage Andy   

BigAndy9 wrote:

nicko wrote:andy,if your feeling alone and un-loved get a cat or dog and see what your missing!

I tend to hang around humans, mainly.


edit: and cats and dogs would tend to hang around their own species, if humans would only let them...

Lol I can't help but like some of your posts Andy.
Have to say I love dogs though.

the rate of t.b. cases in this country is rising,due to the influx of immigration. all immigrants should be checked for this disease before they are allowed in.

eddie wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:


I tend to hang around humans, mainly.


edit: and cats and dogs would tend to hang around their own species, if humans would only let them...

Lol I can't help but like some of your posts Andy.
Have to say I love dogs though.

You like the thought of cats being culled?
Perhaps a better idea would be to cull people like you.

nicko wrote:the rate of t.b. cases in this country is rising,due to the influx of immigration.  all immigrants should be checked for this disease before they are allowed in.

that is right, I agree...  

Catman wrote:

eddie wrote:

Lol I can't help but like some of your posts Andy.
Have to say I love dogs though.

You like the thought of cats being culled?
Perhaps a better idea would be to cull people like you.

Really Phil?
And did you check which exact post I replied to of Andy's?

Stupid.

eddie wrote:

Catman wrote:

You like the thought of cats being culled?
Perhaps a better idea would be to cull people like you.

Really Phil?
And did you check which exact post I replied to of Andy's?

Stupid.

You've always been very anti cat, so don't think that i've made a mistake there.

Catman wrote:

eddie wrote:

Really Phil?
And did you check which exact post I replied to of Andy's?

Stupid.

You've always been very anti cat, so don't think that i've made a mistake there.

I don't wish for them to be culled. I just don't like them.
Don't assume what I'm thinking Phil. You always do that and you're very often wrong.
It annoys the hell out of me.

I think it would be a difficult job to have every domestic cat culled

BigAndy9 wrote:From June last year:


A study at University of Edinburgh found that the disease, which is caused by a bacterial infection, is more common among domestic cats than previously thought.


Experts estimated that up to 100 out of every 100,000 cats could be infected with Mycobacteria, which include those that can cause tuberculosis, with around a fifth of these being the bacterium found in cattle and badgers.


Veterinarians believe domestic cats could be catching the disease by venturing into badger setts or from rodents that have been in badger setts. They could also catch it directly from cattle or from infected milk.


While the findings may raise fears that domestic pets are helping to spread TB among cattle, vets said the risk to human health was of greater concern.


Most people in Britain have been vaccinated against tuberculosis with the BCG jab, which should offer protection against bovine TB. However, a growing number of people have not been inoculated.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/petshealth/10150363/Cats-being-infected-with-TB-could-be-risk-to-owners-vets-warn.html

Sounds very much to me like someone is trying to gain more support for an extension to the (failed) badger cull.

personally I'd still rather have my cats than a lot of people....

from a cat, you cant catch

measles
smallpox
malaria
colds
(aids
syphyllis
gonorhoea
clamydia)...no matter WHAT you do with them (yeuk)
hepatitis a, b OR c
and many many other human ailments....