- The executive agency primarily responsible for ensuring that farmed animals in Great Britain are healthy, disease-free and well looked after, and that risk to public health from animal disease is minimised.
- Provides information and advice to cat owners and veterinary professionals. Information on services offered, downloadable publications and forthcoming events and talks in the UK.
- Provides the history of a series of outbreaks in the United Kingdom in 2000, the steps taken by MAFF to contain the disease and the criticism of the disease control strategy.
- Provides information on a range of livestock diseases which can be caught by humans, the legal requirements in the UK, the precautions to be taken and safe working practices. [PDF]
- Provides a purpose-built ambulance services for horses, regularly covering many point-to-points and other horse events especially in the South of England.
- Report from the Royal Society Inquiry commissioned by the UK Government into livestock diseases issued in July 2002 and a follow-up review in December 2004.
- DEFRA outlines the surveillance strategy for this disease including its description, the rationale for Government intervention, its impact, human health implications and legislation. [PDF]
- Provides an introduction to fish and shellfish farming and the fishing industry in the UK, and the checks and controls used to prevent the spread of disease outbreaks.
- Outlines a strategy in the UK to protect human health, protect and promote the welfare of animals, and protect the interests of the wider economy, environment, society and international trade.
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