Jeremy Clarkson has been given even more bad news after revealing cattle on his Diddly Squat Farm has tested positive for TB. The former Top Gear hostannounced the tough news yesterday that his farm has been struck by infectious disease Tuberculosis.
The TV star shared the devastating update with fans on X yesterday, where he wrote: "Bad news from Diddly Squat. We’ve gone down with TB. Everyone here is absolutely devastated."
Bovine tuberculosis or bovine TB is "caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis, (M. bovis) which is closely related to the bacterium that causes human and avian tuberculosis. The infectious disease is respiratory and can be transmitted "through nose to nose contact and also through contact with saliva, urine, faeces and milk".
There is also a risk it can be passed to humans, too. Now, Jeremy has given an update on the farm - which comes after his initial devastating news left fans gutted for the presenter turned farmer.
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Speaking to Peter Cardwell on Times Radio, Jeremy said: "It's awful, it is awful. You have a test every six months on the cows and then you sort of become blasé, it's a hypothetical threat. And then the vet looks up as he did yesterday lunchtime and said 'I'm really sorry this one's failed'. So that means we're now locked down and it's just dreadful, absolutely dreadful.
"It's only been not even 24 hours since I found out and it occupies my mind. Well it was occupying my mind but I got up this morning and found one of my puppies has died. And we've got a very sickly calf. Honestly, farming? I'm not enjoying it this week."
Jeremy also revealed that the farm will be closed for "certainly two months because that's how long we have to wait before we do another test" but said that the farm shop was unaffected as "it's only cows that get affected by it".
It comes only hours after Kaleb Cooper announced some sad news too. He revealed that thieves had made off with his farm machinery including one of his tractors and a post knocker, for driving fence posts into the ground.
Kaleb posted earlier this week: "My post knocker was stolen last night, as well as the John Deere tractor. Can we please make this as hot as possible? What is going on with England at the moment?"
Fans rushed to share their sadness with Kaleb, with one writing: "Sorry to hear that mate. A friend of mine who owns a garden centre had their digger nicked last night, and another friend had their two 16 ft trailers nicked the week before. I saw two different companies had vans done over last week, totalling something like £50k worth of tools. It's soul-destroying!"
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