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Monitoring a dynamic disease situation
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.165.13.363
Subject(s) - welsh , livestock , animal health , veterinary medicine , agency (philosophy) , veterinary public health , zoonotic disease , disease surveillance , one health , agriculture , medicine , geography , disease , public health , pathology , archaeology , forestry , philosophy , epistemology
The need for scanning surveillance to detect new and emerging diseases has never been greater, delegates attending the Veterinary Laboratories Agency's second Emerging Diseases Symposium were told. Held at the VLA ‐ Weybridge in June, the symposium attracted representatives from Defra's Food and Farming Group, the Welsh and Scottish governments, Natural England, Animal Health, the Veterinary Medicines Directorate, specialist veterinary societies and some of the livestock sector health councils.