VLA - A Dynamic Organisation
VLA is a network of sixteen Regional Laboratories including one in Scotland, two in Wales and a central facility in Weybridge, Surrey. There are also two Surveillance Centres operated as sub- contracts with the Liverpool Veterinary School and the Royal Veterinary College.
VLA is internationally recognised as a centre of scientific excellence.
It provides a wide range of applied research and consultancy on diseases of livestock, diagnosis of diseases of statutory and public health importance and surveillance of new and emerging diseases throughout the UK.
VLA acts as an International Reference Laboratory for a wide range of infectious and non-infectious diseases in farm animals.
UK National Reference Laboratory for:
Aujeszky's Disease
Avian Influenza
Brucellosis
Classical Swine Fever
Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
Equine Encephalomyelitis
Equine Infectious Anaemia
Newcastle Disease
Salmonella
Teschen Disease (Porcine Enterovirus
Encephalomyelitis)
UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Reference Centre for:
Avian Influenza
Brucellosis
Newcastle Disease
Poultry Diseases
World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for:
Characterisation of Rabies and
Rabies-related Viruses
Reference and Research on
Brucellosis
European Union (EU) Community Reference Laboratory for:
Avian Influenza
Newcastle Disease
Transmissible Spongiform
Encephalopathies
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Reference Laboratory for:
Antimicrobial Resistance
Avian Influenza
Bovine Tuberculosis
Bovine Viral Diarrhoea
Brucellosis
Classical Swine Fever
Contagious Agalactia
Contagious Equine Metritis
Enzootic Bovine Leukosis
Equine Viral Arteritis
Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis
Newcastle Disease
Rabies
Salmonellosis
Scrapie and Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy
