The Northern Ireland Control Programmes for Infectious Cattle Diseases Not Regulated by the EU

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dc.contributor.authorStrain, Sam
dc.contributor.authorVerner, Sharon
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Emma
dc.contributor.authorHodnik, Jaka Jakob
dc.contributor.authorSantman-Berends, I.M.G.A.
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-21T14:47:54Z
dc.date.available2021-10-21T14:47:54Z
dc.date.issued2021-08-26
dc.descriptionPublication history: Accepted - 26 July 2021; Published online - 26 August 2021.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe disease control programmes for Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD), Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR), Johne's Disease (JD), Leptospirosis and Neosporosis are described including the approved diagnostic tools, diagnostic quality systems, and the role of vaccination (where appropriate). This paper describes the control programmes within NI, the challenges relating them, as well as assessing their impact and effectiveness, taking into consideration the quality of data available and number of herds participating. With the NI agricultural industry experiencing increasing financial pressures and post Brexit changes, the necessity of working to maximise the performance of bovine disease control programmes at the individual farm level as well as at the regional level is increasingly important. The programmes described fall into two categories with two distinct aims. Two managed by Animal Health & Welfare NI (AHWNI), the BVD eradication and JD Dairy Control programmes seek to eradicate or control infection at the regional level. A further 5 programmes, covering BVD, JD, IBR, Leptospirosis and Neosporosis, are managed by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI) and focus on facilitating eradication or control at the individual herd level. These latter programmes conform to the Cattle Health Certification Standards (UK) (CHeCS) which is a UK self-regulatory body set up to ensure consistency between different disease control schemes across herds. The largest of all the programmes described is the AHWNI BVD Eradication Programme which has led to significant reductions in infection incidence. Compliance with it has been high with more than 97% of all cattle alive at the end of 2020 having a BVD test status. The rolling annual incidence of BVD virus positive calves has fallen by 56% since the start of the compulsory programme in 2016. This decrease has occurred largely through industry initiatives to deal with BVD positives, including the voluntary culling of persistently infected (PI) animals by herd owners, a voluntary abattoir ban on the slaughter of BVD virus (BVDv) positive animals, and the inclusion of retention of a BVDv positive animal as a non-conformance in the industry-run Farm Quality Assurance Scheme.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis article is based upon work from COST Action Standardizing output-based surveillance to control non-regulated diseases of cattle in the European Union (SOUND control) CA17110 supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).en_US
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12518/366
dc.identifier.citationStrain, S., Verner, S., Campbell, E., Hodnik, J. J. and Santman-Berends, I. M. G. A. (2021) ‘The Northern Ireland Control Programmes for Infectious Cattle Diseases Not Regulated by the EU’, Frontiers in Veterinary Science. Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.694197.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2297-1769
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.694197
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021 Strain, Verner, Campbell, Hodnik and Santman-Berends. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.en_US
dc.subjectNorthern Irelanden_US
dc.subjectcontrol programmesen_US
dc.subjectcattleen_US
dc.subjectdiseaseen_US
dc.subjectnon-regulateden_US
dc.subjectBVDen_US
dc.titleThe Northern Ireland Control Programmes for Infectious Cattle Diseases Not Regulated by the EUen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-07-26
dcterms.dateSubmitted2021-04-12

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