Our Role
We work closely with the Chief Veterinary Officer and policy makers, the food and farming industry and others in animal health and welfare.
We carry out a range of activites to manage and support animal health and welfare and conservation, but the bulk of our work is in tracking and managing down the economic and public health risks associated with notifiable animal disease.
Those notifiable animal diseases that are continuously present in Great Britain are termed ‘endemic’.
They include bovine tuberculosis and scrapie. Endemic diseases are better known to the farming community than to the public at large.
Those diseases not normally present are termed ‘exotic’ and include avian influenza and foot and mouth disease. Outbreaks of exotic disease are comparatively rare but when they happen they are very much in the public eye.
Those notifiable animal diseases that are continuously present in Great Britain are termed ‘endemic’. They include bovine tuberculosis and scrapie.
Endemic diseases are better known to the farming community than to the public at large.
Those diseases not normally present are termed ‘exotic’ and include avian influenza and foot and mouth disease.
Outbreaks of exotic disease are comparatively rare but when they happen they are very much in the public eye.
Page last modified: 14 August 2007
Page published: 14 August 2007