He said he wasn't told why the TB division didn't endorse the effort but said it might have been because a written proposal wasn't submitted.
For doctors who don't specialize in TB, treatment of resistant strains gets tricky.
"We simply can't go on while TB increases its vice-like grip on family farms" argues the president of the NFU Peter Kendall.
Treatment can last for years, but TB patients aren't infectious for the entire course of treatment.
Ashok Kumar, the head of the TB division, didn't return phone calls seeking comment.
"We're not against culling badgers if it's going to be effective in curbing bovine TB, but you can't apply the criteria everywhere that would make it effective, " Mr Bullock told BBC News.
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Mumbai made international headlines last year when a physician researcher reported several patients whose disease didn't respond to 12 of the most commonly used TB medicines.
India has made enormous progress in TB control and to imply otherwise wouldn't accurately reflect the WHO's opinion.
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Dr. Alpa Dalal, a chest physician at GTB Hospital, Mumbai's main TB hospital, said she has been warning government TB officials that the standard cocktail isn't working for many of her drug-resistant cases.
The problem, however, is that if a patient's TB is resistant to some of those drugs, the cocktail won't work.
Mumbai TB supervisors agree, saying some patients wait many months to get the right treatment because there aren't enough accredited labs to confirm diagnoses of more extreme drug resistance.
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