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Notifiable and Exotic Disease Course

A training course run jointly by VLA and IAH will be held between 27th June and 1st July.

IAH experts will be talking on Foot and Mouth Disease, Bluetongue, African Horse Sickness, African Swine Fever, Capripox viruses, Rinderpest, Rift Valley Fever and Peste des Petits Ruminants.

The Notifiable and Exotic Disease Training Course is designed for government veterinarians and aims to provide a global perspective of notifiable animal disease and the latest developments in their detection and control.

Current recognition and diagnostic information for important diseases, animal emergency response principles, economic perspectives of disease introduction are provided from a team of experts in their respective fields. The training aims to prepare field veterinarians in their role as first responders in the event of the introduction or emergence of a notifiable disease in Great Britain.

There will be the chance to talk with the speakers during the course and there will also be many opportunities to network with other government veterinarians and scientists.

Over 26 notifiable diseases will be covered including:
Avian influenza
African horse sickness
Contagious equine metritis
Classical swine fever
Enzootic bovine leucosis
Equine viral arteritis
Foot and mouth disease
Rabies
Tuberculosis
West Nile virus

For more information email events@vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk

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Birmingham Dogs Home makes urgent appeal

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 Birmingham Dogs Home has issued an urgent winter appeal as it faces more challenges over the Christmas period.

The rescue centre has seen a dramatic increase in dogs coming into its care, and is currently caring for over 200 dogs. With rising costs and dropping temperatures, the charity is calling for urgent support.

It costs the charity £6,000 per day to continue its work.

Fi Harrison, head of fundraising and communications, said: "It's heart-breaking for our team to see the conditions some dogs arrive in. We really are their last chance and hope of survival."

More information about the appeal can be found here. 

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Avian flu confirmed at premises in Cornwall

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in commercial poultry at a premises near Rosudgeon, Cornwall.

All poultry on the infected site will be humanely culled, and a 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone have been put in place. Poultry and other captive birds in the 3km protection zone must be housed.

The case is the second avian flu case confirmed in commercial poultry this month. The H5N5 strain was detected in a premises near Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, in early November. Before then, the disease had not been confirmed in captive birds in England since February.

The UK chief veterinary officer has urged bird keepers to remain alert and practise robust biosecurity.

A map of the disease control zones can be found here.