...Organization (FAO) International Reference laboratory/Centre for brucellosis. Rabies Rabies virus (Bill Cooley, APHA) Rabies is a devastating disease that affects mammals, including humans, and remains an endemic disease in many...
...that the importance of zoonoses for both animal and human health cannot be underestimated. Some of the diseases studied at APHA in my portfolio include: rabies and other lyssaviruses, hantaviruses,...
...diagnostic tests to help us measure how protected animals and humans are against rabies. I also carry out routine testing of blood samples sent in from rabies vaccinated pets to...
...just how they can be used in this interesting read. 5. World Rabies Day 2019 When you hear the word rabies, this often conjures up images of aggressive dogs, with...
...EU Exit on the PETS travel scheme for rabies testing may be profound, as indicated in recent government advice. The ID team, together with colleagues in the Virology Department, successfully...
...(APHA) with an opportunity to publish a video on our pan-lyssavirus real-time RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction), to encourage its standardised use in rabies labs around the globe. This...
...livestock. A proportion of these viruses are also zoonotic so One Health is key to our work. UK human cases of these viruses include; Rabies acquired abroad (exotic, carnivore origin),...
In this blog, we hear from Arran Folly, deputy head of Rabies National Reference Laboratory and Robovirus research team leader, as he talks about mosquito-borne viruses, including Usutu virus, in...
...capture some of these milestones: 1920s Soon after the Addlestone Institute opened, its laboratory work was extended to include rabies diagnosis after the disease returned to the UK in 1918....
...year, but we managed to highlight a few in various different ways. In September, Dr Tony Fooks highlighted APHA’s rabies work to mark World Rabies Day. And in November, Sarah...
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