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New guide to protecting pork export businesses from the ASF pandemic released
African Swine Fever (ASF) has been continuing its global spread, with reports of newly affected areas almost weekly. In the absence of a vaccine, controlling movement of potentially infected pigs and pork products is vital to reducing the spread, but this is causing...
World One Health Day 2019
At Ausvet, implementing One Health approaches is core to our goal to improve health through applied epidemiology worldwide. To mark World One Health Day this Sunday 3rd November, we thought we would give a bit of background on what One Health is and how it relates to...
PPR eradication
Angus Cameron has recently published a paper outlining a new approach to the global eradication of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) which is a devastating disease of sheep and goats and which threatens the livelihoods and food security in the world's poorest...
New peer-reviewed article from Ausvet !
Ausvet has just published a new article in the peer-reviewed scientific press based on recent work conducted in cooperation with salmonoid producers in Chile in 2018. The article entitled ‘Quantifying the effects of sea lice burden and lice bathing treatments on...
Exercise Toa Baca: testing the Animal Biosecurity Emergency Response Plan in Fiji
Emergency disease outbreaks pose a major risk to the health and livelihood of livestock producers, and have the potential to cause significant disruption to the supply of safe, affordable food. As discussed in our recent post (Implementing One Health principles in...
Implementing One Health principles in outbreak investigations
Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases pose a challenge for field epidemiologists and other responders. Simultaneous illness and deaths in people and animals require a coordinated response between public health, animal health and environmental health agencies, but most public...