State Vet Med 1+2

State Veterinary Medicine and Disease Surveillance 1 + 2

Understand the role of government in control and approaches to animal disease

Defra

FSA

• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• DEFRA is ministerial department supported by agencies and public bodies

• Food standards agency
• Non-ministrial - run by a board, not ministers

Responsibilities of DEFRA

Executive agencies of DEFRA

FSA Operations

Responsibilities of FSA

APHA

Inspection Teams

• Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Executive agency sponsored by DEFRA

• OVs - vet surgeons with VPH training
• In charge of team
• Role - antemortem inspection, slaughter, PM
• Meat inspectors - non-vets
• Role - hygiene, welfare, AM assistance

Responsibilities of APHA

Staff

• Vet inspectors - Operate from regional offices across UK
• Animal health officer - non-veterinary role
• Official vet - private vets who perform work on behalf of govt

Local Authorities

• Environmental Health - responsibility of district council
• Food hygiene
• Role - waste control, pest control, inspections
• Community Protection - responsibility of county council
• Animal health and welfare, trade
• Role -market inspections, animal transport, identification

Responsibilities of VIs

Responsibilities of OVs

Responsibilities of AHO

VMD

• Executive agency sponsored by DEFRA

Responsibilities of VMD

Understand the context of disease monitoring and surveillance

• Monitor trends and incidences of disease agents in animal and human populations

Understand the role of international organisations in monitoring and surveillance

• United Nations WHO

• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation

• World Organisation for Animal Health

• UK Chief Veterinary Officer

• European Food Safety Authority

Diseases Monitored by GLEWS

Diseases that fall into disease-free states

Understand monitoring and surveillance practices and structures at the national and European level

• National level - notifiable diseases
• Duty to notify appropriate authority
• Suspect or diagnosed diseases
• Humans
• Animals

• Surveillance dashboards for livestock disease

• European level - Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
• Monitor foodborne, waterborne and zoonotic diseases

African Horse Sickness

Classical Swine Fever

FMD

Peste de petits ruminants

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia

BSE

25% viral, prion

Outbreaks of previously unknown diseases

55% bacterial

Rapid increase of known diseases within last 20 years

20% fungal, protozoa, helminth

Emerging Infectious Diseases

60% zoonotic

Persistence of infectious diseases that can't be controlled

72% wildlife origin

• SARS
• Lyme disease
• West Nile Virus