Nederlandse Belangenvereniging van Hobbydierhouders
Animal Diseases
European Animal Health Law Afdrukken E-mail

1 januari '10

The European Commission has started to turn the CAHP (Comm. An. Health Policy, presented in 2007) into the new Animal Health Law.

The concept has been sent to various stakeholders throughout the EU for consultation, in the form of a questionnaire.
NBvH has submitted its answers just before the end of December as requested.
Please click the following link questionnaire_answers_nbvh

 
Q-fever in the Netherlands Afdrukken E-mail

15 November '09

The European Livestock Association (ELA) has a very distingished and knowledgeable member, Dr. Ruth Watkins a virologist. She has some very significant thoughts on the the problems regarding Q-fever, all bundled on Warmwell.com

See all of it on Warmwell/Q-fever

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African Horse Sickness Afdrukken E-mail

30 March '09

On 25 March two members of the European Livestock Association (ELA) Council, Anne Lambourn and Christine Bijl (also Secretary of NBvH), were invited to the AHS work group at the ministry of Agriculture (Defra) in London. There they pleaded for further development of a good inactivated vaccine against AHS. See the ELA-presentation (ahspresentation_london09)

The EU has instated a vaccine bank for all nine AHS serotypes, with the South African vaccines whivh are modified live vaccines (MLV). For this reason the vaccines can only be used as emergency vaccination, not as a preventive measure.

Furthermore the Dutch exoert group has circulated their advice to the Dutch ministry (ahs_expert_advice_dutch). One of their issues is to persuade the Commission to revise their views on killing suspested horses.

NBvH and ELA will again write to the Commission to fully support the Expert advice group.

Read more about African Horse sickness on Warmwell.com/AHS

Read more about all Animal diseases and other issues on Warmwell.com

 
Climate Change Fears For Deadly Virus Outbreaks In Livestock Afdrukken E-mail

30 March '09

Global warming could have chilling consequences for European livestock, warned Professor Peter Mertens from the Institute for Animal Health, at the meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Harrogate on March 30.

Since 1998, rising temperatures have led to outbreaks of bluetongue (BT) across most of Europe, which have killed over 2 million ruminants (mainly sheep). The outbreak (the largest on record) caused by Bluetongue virus serotype 8 (BTV-8), which started in the Netherlands and Belgium during 2006, has since spread to most European countries, including the UK in August and September 2007. This outbreak, the first ever recorded in northern Europe, was not an isolated event. There are also fears that related viruses, such as African horse sickness virus, which can have a fatality rate of more than 95% and shares the same insect vectors as bluetongue, could also be introduced.
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Smallholding and the authorities Afdrukken E-mail

Over the past decades the need to control animal diseases has become more and more urgent. And more diseases have been added to the list of notifiable diseases, and more are yet to be expected.
Unfortunately this has many consequences for smallholders and hobby holders, who were, in the past days, never considered to be a group of any importance or risk in the matter.
But now this group has been confronted with the same policies which were made for commercial holdings: culling methods, and registration measures.
The ‘innocent’ days of keeping a few chickens in the back yard or some sheep in the orchard are over.

The best up to date information on animal diseases in Europe and worldwide is WARMWELL.COM

 
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