International animal health, disease surveillance and trade in 2002

This report summarises the surveillance managed by DEFRA'S International Animal Health Division, and focuses on disease incidents reported during 2002 which had, or could potentially have had, an impact on UK trade and animal health security. Reports on notifiable diseases in the EU included increased measures to control the further spread of bluetongue in Italy, the possible implication of wild boar in the spread and maintenance of classical swine fever in Luxembourg, Germany and France, an outbreak of Newcastle disease in Denmark, and swine vesicular disease in Italy.