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鈥檚 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聽with 鈥EEDAS鈥 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 鈥楽mART (Small Animal Risks and Threats) Comms鈥 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聽with 鈥SmART Comms鈥 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 EEDAS or SmART comms
贰尘补颈濒听siu@apha.gov.uk聽and include:
- 鈥楿nsubscribe鈥 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
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Equine alerts
Notifications about equine diseases are sent out by the Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance (EIDS) team, which are independent of APHA. You can sign up to EIDS alerts here: 鈥痑nd click on the sign-up tab.