Table 1.

Estimates of numbers of tuberculosis (TB)-infected hosts by species and region. Posterior distribution of the number of infected hosts at any given time point reported as median and 95% credible interval.

Host Species		Estimated Number of Infected Hosts
		Britain and Ireland		Central–Western Europe		Iberian Peninsula		Total
		Median	Credible Interval95	Median	Credible Interval95	Median	Credible Interval95	Median	Credible Interval95
Cattle	Cattle	29,871	1279–89,606	2303	98–9460	6175	253–22,356	38,349	1630–121,422
Non-bovine domestic	Goat	21	1–83	9	0–36	145,906	106,874–232,240	145,936	106,875–232,359
	Sheep	4	0–20	3	0–16	32.430	1343–146,771	32,437	1343–146,807
	Pigs	7	0–33	3	0–22	25.392	1528–60,716	25,402	1528–60,771
	Cervids (farmed)	73	3–387	26	1–101	21	1–115	120	5–603
Wildlife	Wild boar	74	8–325	7118	846–22,716	229,629	103,787–693,486	236,821	104,641–716,527
	Red deer	119	5–452	1912	68–9,033	20,134	953–62,764	22,165	1026–72,249
	Fallow deer	10,621	559–24,259	0	0	10,693	659–35,678	21,314	1218–59,937
	Badger	91,643	62,310–148,225	3231	940–6756	20,403	8543–39,957	115,277	71,793–194,938
Total		132,433	64,165–263,390	14,605	1953–48,140	490,783	223,941–1,294,082	637,821	290,059–1,605,612