...(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...
...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...
...blog ideas for the coming year. This includes our annual blogs to mark World Rabies Day and International One Health Day and more features on our scientific specialisms that support...
...of novel pathogens. At APHA we have discovered novel lyssaviruses (similar to the Rabies virus), parasitic nematodes worms and the potential cause of elephant mortality event using this approach. The...
...capability and, in turn, help to protect animal health. APHA plays a vital role in the development of surveillance techniques, diagnostics and treatments for diseases such as bovine tuberculosis, rabies...
...to compare the efficacy of different control options in the risk of disease incursion. For example, our rabies risk assessment work was a key piece of scientific evidence when adopting...
...through predation and competition and can carry several zoonotic diseases including rabies. Despite this, raccoon dogs have had some popularity as exotic pets, but due to their harmful impact there...
...science campus at APHA’s Weybridge site to future-proof the UK’s ability to respond to new and emerging animal diseases such as avian influenza, tuberculosis and rabies and secure over £12...
...diseases like avian influenza (bird flu) and rabies, as well as helping control disease outbreaks. Bird flu on the move We recently contributed to a global study, published in the...
...work, she spent five years in Africa and Latin America broadening her perspectives. In the state veterinary services in Botswana her work focused on meat hygiene, rabies and foot and...
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