TB Figures Released September 12, 2013 12:00 am Latest figures from DEFRA show that 17,367 cattle were slaughtered as TB reactors, inconclusive reactors or direct contacts between January 2013 and June 2013. This is almost a 5% fall from the same period last year. In England 13,820 cattle were slaughtered while Wales saw 3,527 cattle killed and 20 in Scotland. New incident numbers also fell between during the first six months of 2013 from 2,724 in January-June 2012 to 2,587 in the current year.
