The UK Bovine vaccine trials, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation - have 3 phases, including 2 phases that target TB-free herds.
Phase 2 (early 2025), used the vaccine Bacillus Calmette-GuĂ©rin (BCG)—commonly known as CattleBCG in the trials.
It was given to small groups of cattle in low-risk areas of England and Wales, involving at least five farms and 600 animals vaccinated in phase 2 alone. (Phase 1 was a skin test)
After the vaccine was administered to the animals - farmers came forward saying that cattle in their herds started testing positive for Bovine TB -- and they are now having to slaughter their cows.
By March 2025 - a total of about 35,000 cattle were slaughtered because of bovine TB across Great Britain
Like Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm, where the farm is now on lockdown after positive tests from one of his pregnant cows - so the cow, along with her unborn twins, were killed.
Clarkson described the situation as "absolutely dreadful," saying the farm can't buy or sell cows for two months.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provided $51 million over time to the Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed) for animal health product development, including vaccines for diseases like bTB in developing countries.
And he's moving on to humans.... In 2024, Gates Medical Research Institute initiated Phase 3 trials for the human TB vaccine, giving $400 million for the research with Wellcome at $150 million
As for Bovine TB - it is a chronic respiratory disease caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis.
The disease can be catastrophic for farmers, and forces the killing of infected cattle.
Due to a bTB incident in England between October 2021 and September 2022, 22,934 cows were killed.
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