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Animal Health, the government agency tasked with minimising the risk and impact of notifiable animal diseases in Britain, is reminding horse owners to keep track of outbreaks of exotic equine diseases by registering with its Disease Alert Subscription Service.
By signing up, subscribers to the free service can receive information about diseases such as Equine Infectious Anaemia (EIA) and West Nile Virus via their choice of text, fax, voicemail or email.
The Disease Alert Subscription Service was first established by Animal Health in 2006 to provide farmers and livestock owners with information about outbreaks of foot and mouth, bluetongue, avian influenza, Newcastle disease and classical swine fever.
The facility to provide horse owners with information about exotic equine diseases was added to the system in late 2009.
Rob Paul, chief operating officer for Animal Health, said the system was an important part of Animal Health’s efforts to keep horse owners informed and to minimise the impact of equine disease outbreaks.
"Outbreaks of exotic equine disease in Britain are, thankfully, rare," he said. "When disease outbreaks occur, as with the recent cases of EIA in Northumberland and Devon, it is important that horse owners are kept abreast of developments and receive the right information to protect their animals."
The disease alert service provides registered users with the latest news specific to exotic notifiable animal disease outbreaks in Britain. Horse owners can subscribe to Animal Health’s disease alert service by clicking here
The service complements a number of other official channels for keeping animal owners and keepers, and the farming community, informed about developments relating to exotic notifiable diseases of animals.
These include the Defra and Animal Health websites, Defra’s Helpline (tel: 08459 335577), Animal Health’s recorded information line (tel: 0844 88 44 600) and Animal Health’s instant messaging system.
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