Research and statistics

Confirmed cases of wild birds with highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) in Great Britain.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 22 April 2024

Quarterly reports published by the GB Wildlife Disease Surveillance Partnership on the monitoring of disease in wildlife.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: APHA animal disease surveillance reports
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 15 April 2024

Results from tuberculosis (TB) surveillance in hotspots of TB in the Low Risk Area of England.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 11 April 2024

• April 2024: TB hotspots in the Low Risk Area of England

  Summary Hotspots in the Low Risk Area of England are areas defined by the…

• April 2023: confirmed TB hotspots in the Low Risk Area of England

  Summary Surveillance for tuberculosis (TB) was conducted in 2021 in…

• April 2023: potential TB hotspots in the Low Risk Area of England

  Introduction As part of the 2014 Strategy to achieve Officially Bovine…

• March 2022: confirmed TB hotspots in the Low Risk Area of England

  Summary TB surveillance was conducted in 2021 in badgers removed from two…

• March 2022: potential TB hotspots in the Low Risk Area of England

  Introduction As part of the 2014 strategy to achieve Officially Bovine…

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) monthly reports on monitoring of disease in livestock and poultry.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: APHA animal disease surveillance reports
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 10 April 2024

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) monthly focus articles published in the Veterinary Record.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: APHA animal disease surveillance reports
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 10 April 2024

A strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services, biodiversity indicators: 2023 assessment.

• Document type: Statistical data set
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 8 April 2024

Preliminary and updated outbreak assessments for avian influenza (bird flu) in Europe, Russia and the UK.

• Document type: Research
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 4 April 2024

A strategy for England’s wildlife and ecosystem services, Biodiversity indicators: 2023 assessment.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Biodiversity and wildlife statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 3 April 2024

Preliminary outbreak assessments, qualitative risk assessments and updated situation assessments for bluetongue virus in Europe.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Animal diseases: international and UK monitoring and 1 others
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 25 March 2024

Trends of population indices for UK butterflies.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Part of a collection: Joint Nature Conservation Committee statistical releases
• Organisation: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
• Updated: 22 March 2024

Quarterly statistics on tuberculosis (TB) in cattle in Great Britain.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Bovine TB statistics
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 1 others
• Updated: 20 March 2024

Previously published copies of the quarterly statistical publications on the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle for Great Britain.

• Document type: National Statistics
• Part of a collection: Bovine TB statistics
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 20 March 2024

Quarterly reports about new and emerging diseases in sheep and goats.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: APHA animal disease surveillance reports
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 15 March 2024

Quarterly and annual reports about the disease surveillance of non-statutory zoonoses and infections shared between humans and animals.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: APHA animal disease surveillance reports
• Organisation: Animal and Plant Health Agency
• Updated: 14 March 2024

This UK VARSS report provides the details of UK veterinary antibiotic resistance and sales surveillance.

• Document type: Research
• Part of a collection: Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance and Sales Surveillance
• Organisation: Veterinary Medicines Directorate
• Updated: 13 March 2024

Animal Welfare Committee advice on emergency culling for the depopulation of poultry affected by high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) - consideration of ventilation shutdown (VSD)

• Document type: Independent report
• Part of a collection: AWC advice to government
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Animal Welfare Committee opinion on alternatives to culling newly hatched chicks in the egg and poultry industries.

• Document type: Independent report
• Part of a collection: AWC advice to government
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Animal Welfare Committee update on the opinion on the welfare of farmed fish at the time of killing.

• Document type: Independent report
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Animal Welfare Committee opinion on the implications of castration and tail docking for the welfare of lambs.

• Document type: Independent report
• Part of a collection: AWC advice to government
• Organisation: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Reporting against VMD published standards up to 31 March 2024.

• Document type: Official Statistics
• Organisation: Veterinary Medicines Directorate
• Updated: 7 March 2024