Bovine tuberculosis (TB) statistics are not collected on a constituency basis, but at county level. The total number of new herd TB incidents in Shropshire in the years requested are as follows:
Total new herd TB incidents 20061 149 20051 124 2004 105 2003 86 20022 69 2000 39 1 Data are provisional, subject to change as more data becomes available. 2 Data for 2002 are not comparable with other years because the TB testing and control programme was largely suspended in 2001 due to the foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak. When testing resumed in 2002, resources were concentrated on herds with overdue TB tests, which would have had a longer period in which to contract the disease. Also, the proportion of high risk herds tested immediately after the FMD outbreak was greater than that prior to the outbreak.