This issue contains 30 articles covering various animal disease surveillance strategies as well as control and eradication of important animal diseases. Topics discussed also include epidemiology, risk analysis, diagnosis, vaccines and various aspects of animal welfare and production.

Outbreaks of food-borne infections or intoxications in humans resulted from consumption of contaminated foodstuff. The Report covering data from year 2008 provides information on the total number of registered food-borne outbreaks caused by different agents, including also those of unknown cause....

This supplement contains 16 papers dealing mostly with the epidemiology of infectious diseases in livestock from different countries and the control of these diseases. Three papers focus on the prevalence of bluetongue virus in La Réunion, avian influenza in South East Asia and ovine and bovine...

The laboratory, established at Farcha (Chad) in 1953, was united administratively five years later with the research centre for animal trypanosomiasis at Bouar (Central African Republic) to form the Veterinary and Zootechnical Research Region of Central Africa. This organization covers Chad, the...

This cyclostyled publication according to the preface is designed to bring up to date the factual position on "The control of livestock diseases in European countries".
Six pages of "Summary and recommendations" deal with bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, mastitis, foot and mouth disease, swine...

The first issue of The Veterinary Annual appeared in 1959 [V.B. 30, 2039] and it has now become established as a concise survey of advances in many fields of veterinary science. This second issue covers the same wide field as before, and is mainly concerned with literature published in 1959....

The incidence of certain contagious diseases in Gt. Britain during the period 1938-47 inclusive is covered.
The number of outbreaks of ANTHRAX has been gradually declining from 830 in 1938 to 121 in 1947. The 1938 figure was the highest since 1911 and the 95 outbreaks in 1946 the lowest for 50...

Serious loss of livestock during the German occupation necessitated the importation of large numbers of animals by the UNRRA organization in an endeavour to restore the predominantly agricultural economy of Greece.
There are 160 qualified veterinarians. One hundred of these are employed by the...

A development in connexion with departmental reorganization was the establishment of an Agricultural Research Administration in which the Bureau of Animal Industry was grouped with other bureaux having related interests [see V. B. 13. 344, abst. 2307], Active support of the nation's wartime...

The report deals with animal diseases in the territory and with the work of the Arloing Research Institute.
ANIMAL DISEASE.-ANTHRAX and BLACKLEG were only rarely seen and now give very little trouble. BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS appears to be spreading, 47 cases having been seen in 1935. Imported cattle...