News and advice on notifiable disease outbreaks, such as Avian Influenza (Bird Flu), bluetongue and rabies.
In the second part of Sheila's blog, she talks about her fascinating work as CVO Scotland.
...in the identification of affected and exposed poultry. You are an integrator between agricultural and public-health interests, promoting and teaching the principles of biosecurity measures for the protection of livestock...
...you say, so why is the Chief Vet blogging about it? Because I’m sure that you’ve also heard that the development of resistance in bacteria happens because of use of...
...standards and how the OIE code interacts with EU Directives. This was a challenging process as each case is different and each raised questions unforeseen when the policy was written....
...Following voluntary vaccination by farmers, the UK was recognised as free from the disease in 2011. This year France has reported over 230 outbreaks of the virus and restriction zones...
