Veterinary Services

• Seasonal increase in outbreaks of bovine respiratory disease
• 21 outbreaks of chronic fasciolosis diagnosed in sheep compared to only three outbreaks in December 2006.

• Outbreaks of respiratory disease commonly diagnosed in cattle as winter housing period starts.
• Only 27 outbreaks of systemic pasteurellosis in sheep compared with 42 in November 2006.
• Heavy mortality due to salt poisoning in grower and finisher pigs in a unit that fed "concentrated" whey.
• Abortion due to Bacillus licheniformis infection confirmed in a gilt.
• Mycobacterium microti, a cause of tuberculosis in rodents, isolated from a badger in Dumfriesshire.

• Polydactyly investigated in new-born Belgian Blue cross Holstein calves
• Incidence of fasciolosis in cattle remains high
• Twelve outbreaks of fasciolosis recorded in Scottish flocks
• Haemonchosis diagnosed in four Dumfriesshire flocks
• Only six outbreaks of systemic pasteurellosis recorded, compared with 30 during October 2006
• Mixed enteric infections cause wasting and scour in pigs aged nine to 10-weeks-old on two unrelated units

• Lungworm in cattle was a common diagnosis across Scotland
• Salmonella Dublin confirmed on six farms in Ayrshire
• More outbreaks of parasitic gastroenteritis (PGE) in lambs
• Losses among gamebirds in release pens
• Mycobacteriosis diagnosed in a cat imported from South Africa that died in quarantine

• Increase in the number of confirmed cases of Malignant Catarrhal Fever in beef suckler herds in northern Scotland.

• Seasonal increase in lungworm infections in cattle.

• Acute fasciolosis diagnosed in eight- and 14-week-old calves.

OVERVIEW

• Ingestion of Pieris japonica leaves among garden waste caused the death of three Limousin heifers.

• Fewer cases of neonatal septicaemia in suckled calves, probably due to fine dry weather
• Three calves die in an outbreak of focal symmetrical encephalomalacia caused by the epsilon toxin of Clostridium perfringens type D
• Two outbreaks of Border Disease infection associated with the incursion of stray sheep
• Ten outbreaks of arthritis due to Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp.

• More cases of malignant catarrhal fever reported with the lambing season bringing cattle into close proximity with sheep.

• Second bovine abortion outbreak in the south of Scotland due to Bovine Herpes Virus type 1 (BHV1) infection.
• Seasonal increase in nutritional and metabolic disorders in cattle and sheep.
• A vero-toxin producing strain of E.

• Many outbreaks of pneumonia and upper respiratory disease due to infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) investigated.