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CVO comments on a recent paper on the effectiveness of badger culling

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Defra’s Chief Scientific Adviser Gideon Henderson and I have written to the Veterinary Record to express our concerns about significant methodological flaws in a scientific paper it has published by Langton and colleagues1 on the effect of badger culling on …

On both sides of the fence: doing my veterinary research for APHA and a University – what difference does it make?

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Portrait shot of Mark Chambers looking into the camera

Mark Chambers is a scientist for the Animal and Plant Health Agency and is the principal investigator for the oral badger vaccine research programme. He is also a Professor in Veterinary Bacteriology at the University of Surrey’s School of Veterinary Medicine.