Update on cattle health schemes in the UK

Brigstocke, T. D. A.

doi:10.1136/vr.e2366

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“…An idea of the scale of this ‘missing’ data can be obtained from a recent estimate of the coverage of herd health schemes in GB. It has been estimated that approximately 14,000 cattle herds (around 14 per cent of UK holdings) have some form of disease surveillance within a herd health scheme, with the likely dairy:beef split being around 40:60 (Brigstocke 2012). Limited epidemiological data from these schemes appears to be publicly available.…”

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Assessing the expenditure distribution of animal health surveillance: the case of Great Britain

2014

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Animal health surveillance in Great Britain (GB) is conducted through public and private initiatives, yet there is no consolidated information on these activities and their outcomes. We developed an inventory of livestock health surveillance programmes in GB to identify gaps in resource use and potential synergies that could be exploited. The inventory contained details of 36 livestock surveillance activities active in 2011. Data were collected by questionnaire and interviews. Livestock health surveillance funding was found to be unevenly distributed between species: the vast majority (approximately 94 per cent) was spent on cattle diseases (tuberculosis surveillance accounted for most of this expenditure), with 2 per cent on pigs, 2 per cent on sheep/goats, 1 per cent on poultry, and 1 per cent on antimicrobial resistance surveillance across all species. Consequently, surveillance efforts in GB appears heavily skewed towards regions with high cattle densities, particularly highprevalence tuberculosis areas such as the southwest. The contribution of private schemes to surveillance funding was hard to quantify due to limited access to data, but was estimated to be about 10 per cent. There is scope to better understand the benefits of surveillance, enhance data sharing, clarify costs and identify who pays and who gains. Health surveillance should be considered within the sharing of responsibilities for disease control.

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Assessing the expenditure distribution of animal health surveillance: the case of Great Britain

2014

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“…In 2004 approximately 1% of UK herds were in a CHeCS scheme and an estimated 4.4% in 2007. In 2012 it was reported that 13 500 to 14 000 UK herds had some form of disease monitoring, control and/or eradication under a CHeCS-accredited scheme -approximately 14% of UK cattle holdings (Brigstocke, 2012). The majority of producers engaged with CHeCS at this time were screening for BVDV.…”

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Control of bovine viral diarrhoea virus at the national level: a brief summary of European BVD control past, present and future

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Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is a significant cause of economic and production losses to the cattle industry worldwide. The significance of this disease has been recognised by a number of European nations and has led to the implementation of multiple national eradication campaigns over the last 25 years. The Scandinavians were the first to introduce national BVDV eradication measures in the early 1990s and this aim was achieved over a 10 year period. The successful Scandinavian programmes have demonstrated that eradication of BVDV at the national level is a real possibility. This article discusses the progress, testing regimens and methodologies of the various BVDV eradication schemes that are underway across Europe-from those that have now finished to those that are just beginning.

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A high throughput deep amplicon sequencing method to show the emergence and spread ofCalicophoron daubneyiin United Kingdom cattle herds

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2019

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The prevalence of C. daubneyi infection in the United Kingdom has increased, but despite the potential for rumen flukes to cause production loss in ruminant livestock understanding of their emergence and spread is poor. Here we describe the development of a method to explore the multiplicity of C. daubneyi infection and patterns of the parasites emergence and spread, based on Illumina MiSeq deep sequencing of meta barcoded amplicons of a fragment of the mt-COX-1 locus. Our results show high levels of genetic diversity per infection and between populations of 10 to 47 of adult C. daubneyi each from a total of 32 finished prime cattle consigned to slaughter from northern United Kingdom; with 18 unique mt-COX-1 haplotypes. This has implications for the adaptability of environmental and intermediate host stages of the parasite to changing climatic and animal management conditions or of parasitic stages to exposure to anthelmintic drugs potentially allowing for greater pathogenicity or the development of anthelmintic resistance, respectively. Our results illustrate the impact of high levels of animal movements in the United Kingdom, whereby multiple common mt-COX-1 haplotypes were identified in 26 populations in the absence of geographical clustering of clades.

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Update on cattle health schemes in the UK

Cited by 5 publications

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Assessing the expenditure distribution of animal health surveillance: the case of Great Britain

Assessing the expenditure distribution of animal health surveillance: the case of Great Britain

Control of bovine viral diarrhoea virus at the national level: a brief summary of European BVD control past, present and future

A high throughput deep amplicon sequencing method to show the emergence and spread ofCalicophoron daubneyiin United Kingdom cattle herds

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