African Horse Sickness and West Nile Virus: Disease Control
(asked on 19th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures he is taking to prevent (a) African Horse sickness and (b) West Nile Disease from entering the UK; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 25th June 2018
African horse sickness (AHS) and West Nile virus (WNV) are both notifiable in the UK. Defra has well established processes for the prevention, early identification and control of exotic notifiable diseases such as AHS and WNV.