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This information has been moved to GOV.UK and you can find it in the following guidance:
Diagnostic testing
- APHA test submission forms
- Submit samples from farm animals for diagnostic testing
- Submit farm animals for a post-mortem examination.
Surveillance
- Animal disease scanning surveillance at APHA
- View APHA surveillance reports, publications and data
- APHA Veterinary Investigation Centres and pathology providers
- Vets: contact APHA to get expert advice on unusual animal disease
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Disease information reports
General
- Extensively managed livestock event focuses on tickborne diseases– April 2021
- Bedding shortage information note - September 2020, revised October 2024
- Medium to long-term endemic disease risks associated with flooding events - March 2020
- Guidance document to enable the assessment of risk to livestock post flooding – January 2020 English/Welsh
- Surveillance for disease in extensively managed livestock - December 2019
- APHA parasitology group: literature review and horizon scanning - November 2019
- Winter 2018: potential forage shortages in the UK - autumn/winter 2018/2019 - Winter 2018
- APHA parasitology group: literature review and horizon scanning - October 2018
Avian
- Disease considerations in smallholder and backyard poultry flocks – July 2020
- Common disease in small and backyard poultry flocks in Great Britain (excluding gamebirds) - August 2019
- The rise of the backyard chicken: information on an APHA project working with SAVSNET looking at diseases in chickens kept as pets - Summer 2019
- Health issues in breeding gamebirds - April 2019
- Differential diagnosis of negated avian notifiable disease cases in Great Britain - February 2019
Cattle
- Suckler calf diseases – March 2021
- Late grazing plant poisonings in cattle – November 2020
- Taenia saginata - Transmission of tapeworms between humans and cattle – July 2020 - English | Welsh
- Cattle abortions update – June 2020
- Seroprevalence survey for Besnoitia besnoiti in cattle and buffalo imported to mainland UK from Europe in 2018 – February 2020
- Cattle Surveillance in the autumn months - October 2019
- Plan ahead to control parasitic gastroenteritis, husk and fluke - January 2019
- Mycoplasma bovis: current knowledge, industry challenges and knowledge gaps for the UK cattle industry - October 2018
- Mycoplasma bovis infections in cattle- August 2018
- Veterinary information note on bovine besnoitiosis - August 2018
There is also a farmers information note on bovine besniotiosis for vets to share with farmers - August 2018 - Potential impacts on ruminant health and welfare during hot weather - August 2018
- Mycoplasma bovis information note produced by Cattle Health and Welfare Group (CHAWG) - December 2014
- BVD outbreaks in Germany and Netherlands - August 2014
Pig
- Swine Dysentery - January 2019, Updated April 2022
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Investigation of negated notifiable disease report cases in pigs – May 2020
- Small-scale pig producers and disease surveillance: key threats - January 2020
- Update on Klebsiella pneumoniae septicaemia outbreaks in preweaned pig - June 2019
- Common disease conditions diagnosed in smallholder and pet pigs - November 2018
- Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea is a notifiable disease - November 2018
- Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome diagnosis in GB: 2016/17 - November 2018
- Swine influenza diagnosis: Defra-funded surveillance at APHA - November 2018
- Streptococcus suis disease in pigs - October 2018
- Bracken poisoning in pigs - February 2018
- Surveillance for non-statutory pig pathogens in culled wild boar - September 2017
- Coal tar toxicity - August 2016
- Emerging pig disease associated with Seneca Valley virus in the Americas - April 2016
- Klebsiella pneumoniae septicaemia - March 2016
Small animal
- Code of Practice: Salmonella Infection in Domestic Pets – May 2023
- Imported disease summaries for cats and dogs – August 2022
Small ruminant
- Increase in tick numbers and tick-borne diseases reported, particularly in sheep – May 2020, updated July 2024
- An update on joint ill in sheep – January 2021
- Investigation of negated bluetongue cases in small ruminants 2019 - September 2020
- Sheep scab – resistance - July 2020, revised October 2024
- Tickborne diseases of sheep- April 2020
- Investigating abortions in small ruminants - February 2020
- BVD in sheep flocks - letter - September 2019
- Enzootic abortion of ewes - August 2019
- Salmonella information for sheep buyers: English | Welsh
- Coccidiosis in sheep - May 2019
- Hypogammaglobulinaemia and other causes of death in neonatal lambs - January 2019
- Information note for farmers on a new strain of Salmonella in sheep - January 2019
- Information note for markets and hauliers on a new strain of Salmonella in sheep - January 2019
- Abortion in sheep – An Update - November 2018
- Salmonella: New strain in sheep - November 2018
- Potential impacts on ruminant health and welfare during hot weather - August 2018
- Report into free ectoparasite examination for sheep in Wales: December 2017 to March 2018 - June 2018
- Sheep Scab information note - January 2018, revised February 2018
Wildlife
- Rabbit haemorrhagic disease: a re-emerging threat to lagomorphs – August 2020
- Avian botulism – a recurring paralytic disease of wild UK waterbirds – September 2019
- 20 years of national wildlife disease surveillance - April 2019
- Wildlife disease surveillance (Article in Vet Times, subscription needed) - April 2019
- Recent changes in infectious diseases in European wildlife (Article in Journal of Wildlife Diseases, subscription needed) - January 2019
Archived disease information
- Archived AHVLA web pages on disease information (Link to National Archives)
- Archived AHVLA veterinary information notes (Link to National Archives)