Some farmers believe that as badgers can get TB, killing all badgers will remove TB from cattle; and they try to kill badgers, even in areas where they shouldn't. The links between badgers, cattle and TB infection were first suspected in the early 1970s and both experience and experimentation has subsequently proved them beyond doubt. Well, it seems pretty clear that badgers do help spread bovine TB. If the badgers do get culled then the farmers won't have to worry as much about their cattle getting TB. Badgers and cattle never came into close contact during a new field study examining how tuberculosis (TB) is transmitted between the animals.. But that also seems to be where the certainty ends. “We have very strong evidence to show badgers do give TB to cattle. This is a bacterium that causes a serious illness and people usually get the disease by eating contaminated meat, but when humans come into contact with manure they can also pick up the infection. What this suggests is more likely that this is happening through the environment rather than direct contact. Most … This can be found in: cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, some wild animals. because the badgers have TB (Tuberculosis) and they pass it onto their cattle. This is known as the cycle of reinfection. Bovine TB is spread from cattle to badgers and badgers to cattle. Foot and mouth disease. This experiment is being done by the DEFRA, but the experiment is less than perfect due to outside interference by people other than DEFRA.