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Miscellaneous and exotic farmed disease surveillance

If you have found something new, unusual, severe, or unresponsive in relation to miscellanous and exotic farmed diseases,please contact the Miscellaneous and Exotic Farmed Species veterinary lead David Jorge (03000 600018) or your nearest Veterinary Investigation Centre.

Please note: if you suspect a notifiable disease you must contact APHA immediately.

Miscellaneous and Exotic Farmed Species Expert Group (MEFS) veterinary lead

David JorgeDavid Jorge is the Miscellaneous and Exotic Farmed Species (MEFS) veterinary lead responsible for the MEFS scanning surveillance project in APHA. MEFS includes those farmed species which mostly fall outside the other Species Expert Groups, such as camelids and deer.

David qualified as a veterinary surgeon from ICBAS - School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Porto University in Portugal in 2009 following a Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science in 2003. He worked in Portugal as a vet mainly with small ruminants, but also pigs and cattle. In 2012 he joined APHA as Veterinary Inspector in Devon and, following his interest in pathology, he moved to Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk to work as a Veterinary Investigation Officer where he conducts postmortem examinations (PMEs) and diagnostic testing, farm visits, and provides advice and support to veterinary surgeons in practice to diagnose, control and prevent disease in farm animals.

Miscellaneous and Exotic Farmed species includes those farmed species which fall outside the other five Species Expert Groups, such as camelids, deer and rabbits.

APHA Animal Disease Surveillance Reports

Recent Interesting Cases

GB exotic and farmed species quarterly report: disease surveillance and emerging threats – July-September 2021

  • Neoplasia in Alpacas

Disease information

Information notes and alerts on specific diseases or conditions:

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