{"id":293487,"date":"2026-01-20T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293487\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T06:34:09","slug":"new-study-raises-questions-over-tb-testing-during-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/293487\/","title":{"rendered":"New study raises questions over TB testing during Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">While live-animal detections slowed during 2022, the data from slaughterhouses told a different story\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The authors said that reading and interpreting skin reactions in live animals is 'much more subjective' than identifying physical lesions at slaughter or using the interferon-gamma (IFN-y) blood test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b56722a2-9bea-4e47-aed3-7b12e3dcca31.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The authors said that reading and interpreting skin reactions in live animals is &#8216;much more subjective&#8217; than identifying physical lesions at slaughter or using the interferon-gamma (IFN-y) blood test<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">New research has suggested that a temporary drop in live TB test sensitivity in 2022 could be linked to reduced inspections on vets during the pandemic. This may have allowed the disease to spread undetected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was among the findings of a study conducted by researchers from University College Dublin and the Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While live-animal detections slowed during 2022, the data from slaughterhouses told a different story The authors said that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[78],"tags":[61225,18,135,19,17],"class_list":["post-293487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ciaran-moran","tag-eire","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115926038377985028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}