To Cull or not to cull.

[Stew]

I think there would be other tests but they would be lab based, taking too long and costing too much. You could take swabs and grow cultures then identify the colonies but that would take days of work and not be possible on large numbers.

Perhaps time and money could be invested in developing a better test rather than spending time and money on debating killing badgers? I dunno - I'm just a layman too. Just the badger route seems like a more complicated way to deal with the problem.