The British Poultry Council has today released its 2024 Antibiotic Stewardship Report, highlighting the role BPC Antibiotic Stewardship has played as part of the global effort in the fight against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). Here are some of the key stats: - 81% reduction in the

This is actually fantastic progress on antimicrobial stewardship ( entirely voluntary and industry led) and deserves to be celebrated and used an example of how to do this without causing a mess

Bugger…. If you want up to date disease information please go and have a look at the AKMAL HAKIMI webinar series and info that Fiona Lovatt and One Virology have been contributing to in preparation for this

nationalsheep.org.uk/our-work/news/… not much chance of slowing it down or stopping it at this stage I'm afraid...

I kind of feel at this point that there should be a "brace" position for infectious diseases like there is for air craft crashes... if you own ruminants in the UK this really is very serious

This is going to change very rapidly in the next week, please attend for as up to date info as exists if you are at all connected with ruminant farming in the uk

❗️Livestock can still move be but there are testing requirements for exiting the zone = Norfolk and Suffolk. This is to stop infected animals moving the virus longer distances and sharing it with midges there.

This is a very valuable thread on bovine TB control in Britain, written with deep knowledge, compassion and care. Well done Rosie Woodroffe - anyone with any interest in the subject should read this #bovineTB #tbfree

Could we stop beating around the bush with these sorts of articles? These species were hammered by avian flu is why they are now on this list bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

First day of European Veterinary Microbiology College specialist qualifying exams done - good luck to all the part two candidates taking the practical exam tomorrow

People starting to arrive for the ECVM residents training school and conference @onevirology hosting at Notts this year - very exciting to see it all start to come off after a year of planning clearwaterevents.eventscase.com/EN/6Internatio…

Looks like fun….

TODAY 3-4PM - Farm vets are encouraged to sign-up for an urgent update on the latest advice about BTV-3. Please sign up via: bit.ly/3AJzxlq #BTV3 If you can't attend the live event you will be able to access the recording. #bluetongue APHA AHDB

Well… some good news on the btv3 front , permit for vaccine use in the uk ( I don’t know the details yet) gov.uk/government/pub…

Part two of the ecvm exams done and a happy bunch of residents having a go at pathogen sequencing with galaxy … first part of ecvm conference week going well

Just a reminder if you are looking for information on BTV please go and have a look at the AHDB webinar series (covers insect control, treatment, vaccines) ahdb.org.uk/bluetongue Information updated daily as it comes in

Treatment (and euthanasia) guidelines here (open access) bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/in…

ECVM residents training school case discussions - an interesting range of presentations, problems and pathogens (none of it simple or straightforward)

Key note speaker ECVM… Marion Koopmans, publications: https://pure.eur.nl

The 6th International ECVM Conference Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN has been great so far with fantastic speakers. I also gave my first poster presentation and have had some great discussions with others working on CoVs! 🦠 🌍🦡🦊🩺 One Virology Nottingham Research University of Nottingham Vet School Nottingham BBSRC DTP