Dr Emma Brown

Scientists from The Pirbright Institute have led a longitudinal study of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in collaboration with the National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI) in Northern Nigeria. The project investigated the role that small ruminants and contaminated environments have on the…

Understanding how long a disease can be transmitted for is a cornerstone in preventing and controlling outbreaks, particularly when there is more than one route of infection. Scientists at The Pirbright Institute and Wageningen Bioveterinary Research have demonstrated that environments contaminated…

Surveillance of livestock and their environment for the presence of FMDV is an important part of preventing outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a disease which creates a socio-economic burden for the farming industry and smallholder or subsistence farmers alike. Researchers at The Pirbright…

Surveillance of livestock and their environment for the presence of FMDV is an important part of preventing outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a disease which creates a socio-economic burden for the farming industry and smallholder or subsistence farmers alike. Researchers at The Pirbright…