Table 1.

Distribution of tuberculous badgers by sex, year and the occurrence of badgers showing various degrees of pathology. Badgers are grouped by age (adults or cubs) and by the presence of bite wounds (adults only)

^*Bite wound data were not available for the majority of badgers in 2000.

^†All badgers culled in 1999 were stored for more than 7 days and therefore excluded. No badgers were culled in 2001 as the Randomized Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) was suspended during the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Year refers to a badger year 1 February to 31 January.

^‡Severely lesioned has been defined as having an index value of ⩾8. Values >7·9 make up the top 25% of indices.