State Vet Med 1+2

State Veterinary Medicine and Disease Surveillance 1 + 2

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

Inspection Teams

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

FSA Operations

Responsibilities of FSA

FSA

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

Responsibilities of VMD

VMD

• Executive agency sponsored by DEFRA

Responsibilities of OVs

Responsibilities of AHO

Responsibilities of VIs

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

Responsibilities of APHA

APHA

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

Defra

Executive agencies of DEFRA

Responsibilities of DEFRA

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

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

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

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

• Surveillance dashboards for livestock disease

Diseases that fall into disease-free states

Diseases Monitored by GLEWS

• United Nations WHO

• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation

• World Organisation for Animal Health

• UK Chief Veterinary Officer

• European Food Safety Authority

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

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

Understand the role of international organisations in monitoring and surveillance

Understand the context of disease monitoring and surveillance

Peste de petits ruminants

BSE

Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia

Classical Swine Fever

African Horse Sickness

FMD

• SARS
• Lyme disease
• West Nile Virus

Outbreaks of previously unknown diseases

Rapid increase of known diseases within last 20 years

Persistence of infectious diseases that can't be controlled

60% zoonotic

72% wildlife origin

20% fungal, protozoa, helminth

25% viral, prion

55% bacterial

Emerging Infectious Diseases