Disease surveillance in England and Wales, January 2019

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Surveillance APHA DISEASE SURVEILLANCE REPORT HEADLINES • Straw-based diet leads to impacted stomachs in fattening cattle • Zoonotic diseases at lambing time • Record number of avian botulism submissions to APHA's Diseases of Wildlife Scheme • Preparing now for parasitic diseases in cattle ater turnout Disease surveillance in England and Wales, January 2019 ABOUT THIS REPORT This report is produced each month by the APHA Surveillance Intelligence Unit and the six Species Expert Groups (livestock and wildlife). The international horizonscanning summaries are produced by the Defra/APHA International Disease Monitoring (IDM) team, notifiable disease reports by the APHA Veterinary Exotic and Notifiable Disease Unit (VENDU), and threat analysis by the cross-agency Veterinary Risk Group (VRG). The report is drawn from scanning surveillance information, data and reports produced by the APHA Veterinary Investigation Centres and non-APHA partner postmortem examination providers contributing to the VIDA database and complying with standardised diagnostic and laboratory testing criteria. Other livestock and wildlife scanning surveillance reports may also be found at www.gov. uk/government/collections/animal-disease-surveillance-reports