Guidance

Sign up for APHA disease alerts for vets

Vets can sign up to get text or email alerts from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) for animal health threats for livestock and small animals.

Vets can sign up to get alerts from the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).

Members of the public, farmers, animal owners and vets can also sign up to receive alerts for notifiable diseases from APHA, which alerts users to exotic notifiable animal disease outbreaks in Great Britain.

Livestock alerts

If you are a vet working on farms you can sign up to get emails and texts from APHA’s Endemic and Emerging Disease Alert System (EEDAS) for farmed animals.

These alerts about significant disease are sent out by the APHA species expert groups and are independent of the notifiable disease alerts.

Sign up to EEDAS

Email siu@apha.gov.uk with ‘EEDAS’ in the subject line.

In the email include your:

  • email address to get alerts by email
  • mobile telephone number to get text alerts

Small animal notifications

If you are a vet working with pets you can receive emails and texts from our ‘SmART (Small Animal Risks and Threats) Comms’ system.

SmART Comms provides timely notification of potential risks and threats in the small animal sector for veterinary professionals and small animal veterinary practices.

These notifications are sent out by the APHA small animal expert group and are independent of the notifiable disease alerts.

Sign up to SmART Comms

Email siu@apha.gov.uk with ‘SmART Comms’ in the subject line.

In the email include your:

  • email address to get alerts by email
  • mobile telephone number to get text alerts

Unsubscribe from APHA alerts

Unsubscribe from EEDAS or SmART comms

Email siu@apha.gov.uk and include:

  • ‘Unsubscribe’ in the subject line
  • the notification that you want to be unsubscribed from (EEDAS or SmART)
  • the email address and phone number where the alerts are sent

Unsubscribe from notifiable disease alerts

Follow the guidance on the APHA animal disease alert subscription service.

How APHA will use your data

Further information about how APHA will use your personal information is available in the personal information charter.

Updates to this page

Published 28 October 2024

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