Research and Policy Briefs

POLICY BRIEF: Risks of indirect incursions of Bluetongue virus to Scotland through wind carriage of midges and subsequent animal movements

POLICY BRIEF: Outcome of the questionnaire on cleaning practices of transport vehicles by Scottish cattle and sheep market users

Thibaud Porphyre, Rebecca Allen (R(D)SVS, Vet student), Lisa Boden

POLICY BRIEF: Consistency of measures to identify key premises for disease outbreaks in Scottish cattle movement networks

Theo Pepler and Rowland Kao

POLICY BRIEF: Understanding attitudes to biosecurity in small scale pig keepers

Carol Kyle

POLICY BRIEF: Indirect cost of ASF

Irmelin S. Helgesen, Andrew Barnes and Alyson S. Barratt

POLICY BRIEF: Identifying pig holdings at higher risk of contact with feral pigs in Scotland

Thibaud Porphyre, Amy Jennings, Harriet Auty, Lisa Boden

POLICY BRIEF: Survey Report: Understanding Backyard Poultry Keepers and their Perspectives on Bird Flu

Carol E Kyle

RESEARCH BRIEF: Machine learning for herd-level bovine Tuberculosis breakdown prediction

Author: Kajetan Stanski, Samantha Lycett, Thibaud Porphyre, May Fujiwara, Harriet Auty, Lisa Boden, Mark Bronsvoort

RESEARCH BRIEF: Improving the use of surveillance data: cryptosporidiosis as an exemplar zoonosis

Sue C Tongue on behalf of EPIC, Alison Smith-Palmer on behalf of Health Protection Scotland (HPS), Geoffrey Foster on behalf of SRUC Veterinary Services (VS)

POLICY BRIEF: Commercial poultry producer and stakeholder views on control of avian influenza (AI)

Orla Shortall and Carol Kyle

RESEARCH BRIEF: Evaluating the uptake of a new diagnostic test for sheep scab by livestock farmers using stochastic game theory

S. Mohr, A. J. Nisbet, S. T. G. Burgess, T. Porphyre, M. Fujiwara, L. Matthews

RESEARCH BRIEF: Environmental factors and climate change implications of Louping ill virus infection in Scottish sheep farms

Lucy Gilbert

RESEARCH BRIEF: Challenges to bovine viral diarrhoea eradication in the UK and Ireland

Orla Shortall and Adam Calo

POLICY BRIEF: An economic analysis of consequences of animals persistently infected with BVD virus

Alyson S. Barratt, Alistair W. Stott, Roger W. Humphry, and George J. Gunn.

POLICY BRIEF: Characterising the climatic risk levels for bluetongue in Scotland

Paul Bessell

RESEARCH BRIEF: Predicting the spread of ASF following introduction in Great Britain and its implication for Scotland.

Thibaud Porphyre and May Fujiwara

POLICY BRIEF: The role of grazing in imaginaries of an economically viable, environmentally sustainable and high welfare dairy sector.

Orla Shortall

POLICY BRIEF: Providing more reliable disease transmission risk estimates using data from small historic outbreaks.

Kokouvi Gamado

RESEARCH BRIEF: Potential impact of using haulage companies on the network of pig movements

Thibaud Porphyre, May Fujiwara, Harriet Auty & Lisa Boden

POLICY BRIEF: Network representation of deer in Great Britain to inform surveillance and control of chronic wasting disease

Theo Pepler and Rowland Kao