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The post-mortem carried out on Geronimo the alpaca has revealed ‘not a shred of evidence’ that he had bovine tuberculosis, his owner and vets said last night.
The animal was put down by Government vets after a four-year legal battle in August.
Last night Geronimo’s owner Helen Macdonald released the full report of the post-mortem carried out by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
She and her vets claimed it revealed all tests showed Geronimo was negative for the disease.
The post-mortem carried out on Geronimo the alpaca has revealed ‘not a shred of evidence’ that he had bovine tuberculosis, his owner and vets said last night
Last night Geronimo’s owner Helen Macdonald released the full report of the post-mortem carried out by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
But she was immediately countered by Defra which said a ‘number of TB-like lesions were found’ and were being investigated further.
Miss Macdonald said: ‘I fully expected the post mortem results to be negative for bTB but there is no joy in
