Reporting disease and disease outbreaks

Services

APHA Weybridge: general testing form (LSW008)

Submit samples to the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for commercial testing by APHA Scientific.
General submission form for diagnostic tests

Submit samples for diagnostic testing or a post-mortem examination by APHA.
Horses: CEM organism test for export and breeding (LSW013)

Vets can use this form to test horses for the Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) organism for export and breeding purposes.
Brucellosis: investigation of abortion or calving (BS07)

Form for Official Veterinarians to submit samples to test for brucellosis in an investigation of abortion or premature calving.
Cattle: diagnostic test submission form

Submit samples from cattle for diagnostic testing or a post-mortem examination by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).

Bird flu: rules in disease control zones in England
- Detailed guide
- 6 November 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Apply for a specific movement licence in a bird flu disease zone
- Detailed guide
- 9 June 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Defra-approved disinfectant: when and how to use it
- Detailed guide
- 6 October 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Fallen stock and safe disposal of dead animals
- Detailed guide
- 5 August 2022
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
Bluetongue: how to spot and report it
- Detailed guide
- 1 July 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency

Bluetongue: latest situation
- 20 December 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- News story
Foot and mouth disease: latest situation
- 17 September 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- News story
Foot and Mouth disease controls eased for Germany
- 14 May 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- News story
Bird keepers must maintain scrupulous biosecurity standards as housing measures set to be lifted
- 11 April 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Press release
Single case of atypical BSE confirmed on a farm in Cornwall
- 20 March 2023
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Animal and Plant Health Agency, and Food Standards Agency
- News story

Avian influenza (bird flu) in Europe, Russia and the UK
- 24 December 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Peste des petits ruminants in Europe
- 23 December 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Sheep and goat pox in Europe
- 22 December 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Research
Avian influenza and Newcastle disease: audit of Thailand's disease control measures
- 22 October 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Research
African swine fever: evaluation of the protection zone in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands
- 22 October 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Research

Foot and mouth disease: disease control (slaughter) protocol
- 30 July 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Foot and mouth disease control strategy
- 24 July 2025
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
National Biosecurity Centre Programme – Weybridge
- 18 March 2025
- Animal and Plant Health Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
Mitigation strategy for avian influenza in wild birds in England and Wales
- 18 March 2024
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
- Policy paper
UK contingency plan for exotic notifiable diseases of animals
- 9 April 2021
- Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Animal and Plant Health Agency
- Policy paper