Livestock identification: helping combat disease
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Livestock identification: helping combat disease
Keepers of cattle, sheep and pigs must register for each species with APHA. Cattle, sheep and pigs areidentified and their movements traced by notification and recording on ScotEID. The role of the marts andabattoirs is very important in the collection of movement data which are transferred directly to ScotEID.ScotEID records, researches and provides guidance on tracing farm livestock through the Scottish livestocksupply chain.
Where movement data come from
EPIC scientists are dependent on access to high-quality, up-to-date data from animal identification records on livestock locations andmovements. These data underpin a broad range of research conducted by EPIC scientists to support Scotland’s livestock industries:
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Knowing animal movementshelps track disease spreadquickly in a disease outbreak.EPIC’s work on pig movementshighlighted the degree ofconnection between differentparts of the pig industry, which isimportant for resilience todiseases such as African swine
Understanding livestock locationsand movements is essential indesigning effective diseasesurveillance and controlprogrammes. For example, EPICscientists track movements ofScotland’s sheep to slaughter tobetter understand surveillancecoverage, and EPIC’s work on BVDhelps monitor progress of theeradication programme.
EPIC scientists use dataon livestock locationsand movements to lookat disease spread,options for control, andeconomic impacts,informing animal healthpolicy in Scotland.
Movement data are used toidentify the role of climate and theenvironment on disease risk. Forexample, EPIC scientistscombined animal movement data,abattoir records and satellite datato identify the environmental riskfactors associated with liver fluke.
The EPIC BVD Biobank combines virusgenome information with ScotEID BVDtesting records to inform the BVDeradication programme end game.Mapping BVD Biobank records showsthe transmission links between regionsinferred from sequence data,highlighting long range transmissionlinks as well as cross border links.
Disease surveillance, testing and control Animal movements and disease spread Using Bovine Viral Diarrhoea virus genome to fight disease
Combining livestock data and environmental data
"The information on the location of cattle in Scotland contained in the ScotMoves system provides greater reassurance to government and keepers that Scotland is well placed to prevent and control exotic diseases such as Foot and Mouth and endemic diseases such
as Bovine Viral Diarrhoea."Fergus Ewing, Rural EconomySecretary, 2018
Scientific evidence informing policy
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