by Catriona Mackenzie | 31 Aug, 2020 | Blog, News
Collaboration among people from multiple disciplines is key to the implementation of a One Health approach. Surveillance for infectious diseases is one aspect of health systems where such collaboration is essential. The design and implementation of surveillance draw...
by Catriona Mackenzie | 19 Aug, 2020 | Blog, News
Qualitative research methods have the capacity to generate useful insights into complex causation of many of our major health issues and contribute to epidemiology. Research on this subject conducted by Ausvet’s Senior Epidemiology Consultant, Dr Melanie...
by Catriona Mackenzie | 18 Aug, 2020 | Biosecurity, Blog, News
ASF is an infectious disease of swine causing major losses in the swine industry worldwide. Early detection of ASF is challenging because of the wide range of non‐specific clinical signs produced and its relatively low contagiousness. Monitoring pig mortality is a...
by Catriona Mackenzie | 14 Apr, 2020 | Blog, Events, News
In the past few years, Ausvet has worked with government and industry in Chile to tackle one of the most important disease problems facing the Chilean salmon industry. Based on this work, an article entitled ‘Effectiveness of antimicrobial treatment of salmonid...
by Catriona Mackenzie | 3 Apr, 2020 | Blog
We have recently uploaded a 4-minute video to talk about some of the benefits of community-based syndromic surveillance and the role it could have in supporting our decision-makers to make more reliable, timelier, evidence-based decisions during this pandemic....
