Recent news
| 5 Nov |
QIAGEN and VLA expand partnership in veterinary testing. |
| 5 Nov |
VLA publishes Annual Review for 2008/09 |
| 28 Oct |
As part of its role as an OIE TSE reference laboratory, VLA has confirmed the identification of atypical scrapie in a New Zealand sheep. |
| 14 Oct |
VLA publishes Q&A on a new disease, blood sweating disease. |
| 21 Sept |
VLA has published Q&A on its work with the Health Protection Agency on the investigation of the E. coli outbreaks. |
| 14 Sept |
VLA has published the Sheep scrapie surveillance 2008. Joint descriptive GB report. |
| 9 Sept |
Press release: The Rooker Prize is awarded. |
| 9 Sept |
VLA signs landmark collaboration with Royal Holloway. |
| 24 Aug |
VLA scientists will be speaking at the Fifth International M.bovis Conference on the 25 to 28 August in Wellington, New Zealand. |
| 18 Aug |
VLA is launching a new testing and consultancy service, the Herdsure® Cattle Health Improvement Service. |
| 1 July |
VLA Annual Report and Accounts 2008/09 are now available. |
| 26 June |
Dr Ian Brown, Head of VLA's Avian Virology, has been appointed Special Professor of Avian Virology in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham. |
| 25 June |
Former VLA colleagues receive Queen's Birthday Honours. Professor Steve Edwards, former Chief Executive, has been awarded a CBE. Professor Diane Newell, former Senior Scientific Consultant, has been awarded an OBE. |
| 25 June |
Press release: Professor Steve Edwards, former Chief Executive, has received the 2009 Gold Award from the OIE. |
| 22 June |
VLA launches Browsealoud service on the website. |
| 12 June |
Disease alert: Psoroptic mange in cattle. |
| 3 June |
VLA has published preliminary results on pig H1N1 studies. |
| 19 May |
VLA's Strategic & Corporate Plan 2009/10 to 2013/14 is published. |
| 19 May |
VLA's Annual Business Plan 2009/10 is published. |
| 7 May |
VLA has launched a H1N1 disinfectant efficacy testing service. |
| 6 April |
Press release: VLA is awarded over £100,000 for proofs of concepts. |
| 6 April |
VLA publishes the 2009/2010 Biological Reagents & Proficiency Testing Brochure. |
| 1 April |
2009/2010 interactive surveillance and commercial test price
lists are now available. |
| 6 Mar |
H6N1 low pathogenic Avian Influenza now confirmed at poultry premises in East Anglia |
| 5 Mar |
VLA publishes a leaflet on VTEC O157 in cattle. |
| 5 Mar |
VLA and the Food Standards Agency have published an advice leaflet on helping stop on-farm lead poisoning |
| 2 Mar |
VLA launches mass phenotyping and genotyping service |
| 27 Feb |
Avian influenza H6N1 confirmed in East Anglia |
| 19 Feb |
VLA contributes to the WHO/FAO publication 'Exposure assessment of microbiological hazards in food: guidelines'. |
| 19 Feb |
Publication of the 'Annual report on surveillance for avian influenza in poultry in the EU during 2007'. |
| 19 Feb |
Publication of the 'Annual report on surveillance for avian influenza in wild birds in the EU during 2007'. |
| 19 Feb |
VLA sponsors the conference abstract book from the Prion 2008 conference held in Madrid, October 2008. |
| 6 Feb |
VLA offers a series of PhD studentships in topical animal, veterinary and public health subjects. |
| 6 Feb |
VLA is hosting the VLA Conference 2009 in September at Royal Holloway Colleage. |
