Pocket Sized Guide to British Epidemics of the last 10 years

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:54:06 -0000, "Pat Gardiner"
wrote:

Pat's Note: I have managed to locate this handy pocket sized list of British
notifiable animal disease outbreaks for the last 10 years.

The striking ommisions are the emerging pig diseases: PMWS, PDNS, PCVAD,
PVAD, PRRS, Circovirus etc.

Britain did have a severe outbreak of PMWS in 1999, but declined to ask the
OIE to make it a notifiable disease and later tried to redate it to 2001 and
make it a consequence of the subesquent CSF and FMD epidemics in 2000 & 2001
respectively, rather than a possible contributory cause. The disease
continues to kill pigs in large numbers in Britain.

There seems to be a strong geographical connection between pigs sick with
PMWS (in all its forms and names) and human MRSA.

Unlike most nearby countries and Canada, Britain refuses to test its pigs
for MRSA.

2007

Avian Influenza (Al)
Bluetongue
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
Contagious Equine Metritis Organism (CEMO)
Bat Rabies (European Bat Lyssavirus Type 2)
Tuberculosis (TB)

2006
Al
Newcastle Disease
Bat Rabies
Anthrax
CEMO
Equine Infectious Anaemia
Scrapie
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
TB

2005
Newcastle Disease
CEMO
Scrapie
BSE
Paramyxovirus (PMV) in Pigeons
TB

2004
Brucellosis
Scrapie
PMV in Pigeons
BSE
Equine Viral Arteritis
TB

2003
Scrapie
PMV in Pigeons
BSE
CEMO
Brucellosis
TB

2002
Scrapie
PMV in Pigeons
BSE
CEMO
Anthrax
TB

2001
Scrapie
PMV in Pigeons
BSE
Foot and Mouth Disease
TB

2000
Scrapie
PMV in Pigeons
BSE
Classical Swine Fever
TB

1999
PMV in Pigeons
BSE
Scrapie
TB

1998
PMV in Pigeons
BSE
Equine Viral Arteritis
Scrapie
TB