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Promoting APHA science in style

Posted by: Ian Brown and Sarah Stewart, Posted on: 27 June 2019 - Categories: Events, One Health
Two female and one male APHA Heads of Department posing for a photograph together in front of an APHA banner saying 'promoting animal, plant and bee health'

On Monday 27 May 2019, APHA scientists attended an event at the British Embassy in Paris to promote our international scientific capabilities to colleagues from around the world.

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An insight into the world of ticks

Posted by: Paul Phipps, Posted on: 11 June 2019 - Categories: Parasites
Image of a female red sheep tick against a one mm scale

Worldwide, tick-borne diseases may be the greatest threat to farm animal production as well as the second greatest threat to human health, second only to mosquito-borne diseases. In this blog, Paul Phipps from the Virology Department discusses ticks and the diseases associated with the red sheep tick.

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