We hope that the UK won’t ever see one other main livestock illness outbreak resembling foot and mouth illness or avian influenza. But when we do, we will likely be a lot better ready to cope with it due to EPIC, the Centre of Experience on Animal Illness Outbreaks. This interdisciplinary group of researchers from a number of Scottish establishments, together with researchers from the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Well being & Comparative Drugs, use a spread of approaches to grasp and mitigate illness unfold to tell coverage on management methods, e.g. utilizing animal motion knowledge to simulate how an launched illness would doubtless unfold underneath numerous eventualities.
On this episode, Naturally Talking’s Lucy Gilbert, additionally a member of EPIC, speaks with Prof Dominic Mellor and Dr Theo Pepler in regards to the necessary work being accomplished by this group in the direction of emergency preparedness for livestock illness outbreaks in Scotland.
This podcast was edited by Lucy Gilbert and Taya Forde.
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Characteristic picture: Authentic paintings courtesy of PhD researcher Eleni Christoforou, 2019©
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