APHA focus articles in the Veterinary Record
Updated 11 April 2025
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The Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) publishes focus articles in the Veterinary Record in conjunction with its monthly disease surveillance report.
These focus articles cover seasonal disease threats and emerging disease trends and are accessible to everyone through toll-free links.
2024 focus articles
Articles published in 2024:
- Cattle and sheep anthelmintics: reporting suspected lack of expected efficacy
- Nodular skin disease in cattle
- European brown hare syndrome virus and other lagoviruses of interest
- Salmonella species infections in dogs; building the epidemiological picture
2023 focus articles
Articles published in 2023:
- Campylobacter species abortion in sheep
- Laboratory diagnosis of gastrointestinal nematodes in first-grazing-season cattle
- Haemonchus contortus: an overview
- Update on severe summer scour syndrome in cattle
- Wide-ranging programme for extensively managed livestock conference
2022 focus articles
Articles published in 2022:
- Reindeer health and welfare
- Monitoring parasite burdens and investigating suspected parasiticide resistance in cattle
- Surveillance Focus; Causes of mortality in feral wild boar in the Forest of Dean
- Antibiotic prescribing challenges in smallholder poultry
- Managing liver fluke on hill farms
- Watery mouth disease in lambs
- Looking out for avian influenza in smallholding poultry flocks
- Pneumonia in adult cattle
2021 focus articles
Articles published in 2021:
- Investigations associated with the 2020/21 highly pathogenic avian influenza epizootic in wild birds in Great Britain
- Pestivirus infections of cattle
- Congenital heart defects in calves
- APHA thin ewe investigation project
- Testing for exclusion of avian notifiable disease: six-year review
- Brachyspira hyodysenteriae isolate multilocus sequence type dashboard
- Update on the APHA’s scanning surveillance network
- Extensively managed livestock event focuses on tickborne diseases
- Suckler calf diseases
Go to the APHA animal disease surveillance reports collection for further reports.