Reporting disease and disease outbreaks

Services

APHA Weybridge: general testing form (LSW008)

Submit samples to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for commercial testing by APHA Scientific.
Cattle: diagnostic test submission form

Submit samples from cattle for diagnostic testing or a post-mortem examination by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
General submission form for diagnostic tests

Submit samples for diagnostic testing or a post-mortem examination by APHA.
Test to exclude notifiable diseases in poultry (APHA1 TTE)

Submit samples for testing to exclude notifiable avian diseases (avian influenza and Newcastle disease) in poultry.
Brucellosis: investigation of abortion or calving (BS07)

Form for Official Veterinarians to submit samples to test for brucellosis in an investigation of abortion or premature calving.

Bird flu: rules in disease control zones in England
- Detailed guide
- 4 July 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Bluetongue movement licences and designated slaughterhouses
- Detailed guide
- 17 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Defra-approved disinfectant: when and how to use it
- Detailed guide
- 6 October 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Fallen stock and safe disposal of dead animals
- Detailed guide
- 5 August 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
APHA Veterinary Investigation Centres and surveillance pathology partners
- Detailed guide
- 28 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency

Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England
- 23 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- News story
Bird keepers must maintain scrupulous biosecurity standards as housing measures set to be lifted
- 11 April 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Single case of atypical BSE confirmed on a farm in Cornwall
- 20 March 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, and Food Standards Agency
- News story
Single case of classical BSE confirmed on a farm in Somerset
- 17 September 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, and Food Standards Agency
- News story
Bluetongue virus detected and dealt with in four imported sheep
- 12 October 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release

Avian influenza (bird flu) in Europe, Russia and the UK
- 20 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Pig population in Great Britain: annual reports
- 4 December 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Sheep and goat population in Great Britain: annual reports
- 28 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Cattle population in Great Britain: annual reports
- 28 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Poultry population in Great Britain: annual reports
- 28 October 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research

Mitigation strategy for avian influenza in wild birds in England and Wales
- 18 March 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Notifiable avian disease control strategy
- 26 September 2019
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Foot and mouth disease: Exercise Blackthorn evaluation 2018
- 28 November 2018
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Policy paper