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Reporting notifiable animal diseases

If you suspect a notifiable animal diseases or have animal welfare concerns, please notify APHA immediately - failure to do this is an offence.

• List of notifiable diseases
• Contact APHA
• Sign-up to receive notifiable disease alerts
• Sign up for APHA disease alerts for vets, including EEDAS and SmART comms

Reporting new or re-emerging animal diseases

If you have found something new, unusual, severe, or unresponsive in relation to animal diseases, contact:

• the relevantSpecies Expert Group veterinary lead
• your nearestVeterinary Investigation Centrefor advice on further investigation

Read the guidance on animal disease scanning surveillance at APHA to find out about the national surveillance network.

Use the post-mortem examination and carcase collection postcode lookupto find your allocated centre and check if your postcode is eligible for free carcase collection.

Official Veterinarian (OV) contacts

See theOfficial Veterinarian guidance on Improve International for further information on who to contact about OV issues.

APHA OV Team

Email:CSCOneHealthOVTeam@apha.gov.uk
Telephone: 03000 200301

Improve International

Email:enquiries@improve-ov.com
Telephone: 0330 2020380
Website:https://www.improve-ov.com

Central DNA Tagging Team

On return to the office/practice, OVs should package and despatch the sample capsules to the Central DNA Tagging Team, as detailed inthe OV instructions.

Email:CSC.TBDNATagging@apha.gov.uk

Sam - Online TB test submissions

For queries about using Sam or the initial registration process please contact the Sam OV support desk:

Email:APHAServiceDesk@apha.gov.uk
Telephone: 03300 416999

The Helpdesk is open between 08:30am 5pm Monday to Friday.