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Badger vaccination: impacts and implementation in the field Gavin Wilson National Wildlife Management Centre Rich Yarnell Slide 2 Talk aims What progress since license? Some facts and figures Knowledge gaps and things to think about Slide 3 Badger Vaccine Deployment Project Launched May 2010 ~ 100km 2 ~ 100 farm premises Learn lessons Practicality Cost Farmer confidence Train lay vaccinators dgBCG licensed March 2010 Slide 4 What vaccinating involves Find setts Placing traps Pre-baiting Trap setting Trap checking Vaccinating Release Remove traps Slide 5 Vaccination video Slide 6 Training course 4 day course 750 Classroom and field Lantra accredited Certificate of competence Vaccination standards Audit 700 / year (50% Defra grant VCS) POM-v: Veterinarian NE / WG license to trap Slide 7 Wider functions of BVDP Administer certificate of competence Collate data Register of lay vaccinators Badger vaccinations Provide ongoing advice Provide summary information Slide 8 BVDP progress, in numbers 2167 vaccines delivered (by end-2012) 998 badgers vaccinated in 2012 167 people trained to date 5 field staff Management and data support 2014, final year Rich Yarnell Slide 9 Wider vaccine deployment progress Slide 10 Slide 11 Knowledge gaps Badger vaccination and transmission risk? Badger vaccination and cattle TB? How to deploy this tool effectively Cost Estimated 2,000 - 4,000 per km 2 (?) More to learn about different deployment models Slide 12 Addressing knowledge gap: effect on cattle TB Large randomised trial? Prohibitively expensive 100km 2 Slide 13 Addressing knowledge gap: effect on cattle TB Adaptive - using growing vaccine database? ~ 6,000 doses delivered Map vaccination effort against cattle data Design analytical protocol Periodically assess effects in cattle Currently under discussion Neil Aldridge Slide 14 Addressing knowledge gap: most effective use? Injectable: interim approach? Limited by cost and manpower Where and how should effort be deployed? Endemic areas? Edge areas? Coordinated? Expertise is key Slide 15 Acknowledgements Woodchester research team Landowners Defra Neil Aldridge