APHA Surveillance

Question 1

What is surveillance?

Answer 1

The systematic ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and the
dissemination of information to those who need to know in order to take action

Question 2

What two types of surveillance are there?

Answer 2

-> targeted surveillance (specific pathogens)
-> scanning surveillance

Question 3

Describe scanning surveillance

Answer 3

• enables the early detection and characterisation of new and re-emerging
  disease threats (NRTs)
• enables timely mitigation (actionable intelligence)
• based on voluntary submission and collection of information – from private
  vets, farmers and external stakeholders
• includes animal disease related threats that impact animal health, human
  health and environmental health (including biodiversity and toxicities)

Question 4

What are the components of surveillance?

Answer 4

-> Threat detection
-> Threat characterisation (assess the risk & communicate)
-> threat Mitigation
-> Targeted and passive scanning
-> Epidemiology, pathology, virology, parasitology etc
-> Escalation, Publication, advice, control programmes

Question 5

How to submit carcassess

Answer 5

contact Veterinary Investigation Officer to dicuss case and agree samples
- Individual tests
- TC005 (PME package)
- Complete submission form (ADTS)
- Post samples

Question 6

diagnostic submission to APHA?

Answer 6

Question 7

Free carcass collection?

Answer 7

• See if eligible by looking up postcode
• usually yes if over 1 hr away

Question 8

How is all the data from APHA GB wide get collated ?

Answer 8

Collated into the VIDA ( Veterinary Investigation Disease Analysis) -> forms the GB Diagnostic Database

Question 9

What is the surveillance pyramid?

Answer 9