Veterinary surveillance blogs

Exotic Diseases Update – Pigs

Brexit has resulted in a delay in animal health information passing between the UK and the EU. It is hoped that in time this will be overcome, but until then we may not receive the same early warnings of disease which we have come to expect.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
11/06/2021

Nematodirus Diagnoses and Risk

Further to our previous post on Nematodirus, our first post mortem diagnoses of Nematodirus infection causing death in lambs were made at the end of last week at our Dumfries Surveillance Centre.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
01/06/2021

Nematodirus Alert

The risk levels for Nematodirus in the Scottish Borders and the Edinburgh area are high to very high, according to the SCOPS forecast.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
21/05/2021

Kangaroo Gait in Sheep

This poorly-understood neurological disease leads to forelimb weakness and a characteristic hopping hindlimb gait; signs consistent with radial nerve paresis.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
21/05/2021

Lamb Dysentery Season Could Still Be Upon Us

Over the past few weeks several diagnoses of lamb dysentery have been made as a cause of death in young lambs.…

SRUC Veterinary Services
10/05/2021

Black's Disease

The most common disease presentation of most clostridial disease is sudden death. However, we are aware of a number of cases of Black’s disease over the last five years which have presented alive.…