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Table 4 Badger culling intensity metric

From: Risk of tuberculosis cattle herd breakdowns in Ireland: effects of badger culling effort, density and historic large-scale interventions

  

Reference

Removal

Other

Total

County

     

Cork

Mean

2.55

1.43

1.90

1.89

 

SD

3.03

1.38

2.21

2.21

Donegal

Mean

1.20

1.00

2.88

2.83

 

SD

1.34

1.06

3.50

3.47

Kilkenny

Mean

0.72

0.88

1.50

1.42

 

SD

0.80

0.94

1.74

1.68

Monaghan

Mean

1.88

0.99

2.07

1.94

 

SD

1.88

1.09

2.19

2.08

Total

Mean

1.76

1.14

2.01

1.96

 

SD

2.04

1.21

2.42

2.37

  1. Culling intensity on farms in areas with removals across four counties during 2007–2012 in Ireland (these data exclude land with no culling). Reference areas were part of a former cull trial and had low historic culling; Removal areas were part of a former cull trial and had high historic culling; other areas were outside of the culling trials. Units: badgers culled km?2.