{"id":57461,"date":"2015-06-02T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=556c45e7fc887230874c91d2582e93f4"},"modified":"2015-06-02T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T11:15:23","slug":"press-release-change-to-the-koi-herpesvirus-disease-inspection-and-testing-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57461","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Change to the Koi herpesvirus disease inspection and testing programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>From 1 June 2015, fisheries which have had a Koi herpesvirus (<abbr title=\"Koi herpesvirus\">KHV<\/abbr>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/prevent-fish-or-shellfish-diseases#control-areas-for-notifiable-disease-outbreaks\">confirmed designation<\/a> since 2012 &#8211; and those designated prior which have experienced a recurrence of infection &#8211; will be subject to a four year visual inspection programme. <\/p>\n<p>Sentinel fish will no longer be introduced into these waters for testing. Instead each fishery will receive at least two formal visual inspections during the <abbr title=\"Koi herpesvirus\">KHV<\/abbr> disease outbreak season. They may also be subject to further spot checks throughout the year. However testing will be undertaken if clinical signs of disease or mortalities are found to reoccur in resident stocks. A confirmed designation will be removed if there is no suspicion of clinical disease after four years of inspection.<\/p>\n<p>This change has been made following a review of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/fish-health-inspectorate\">Fish Health Inspectorate\u2019s<\/a> (<abbr title=\"Fish Health Inspectorate\">FHI<\/abbr>) disease testing programme, and the completion of a study conducted by Cefas epidemiologists. Cefas concluded the use of sentinel fish afforded little extra confidence of <abbr title=\"Koi herpesvirus\">KHV<\/abbr> disease freedom when compared to an inspection only programme. Cefas epidemiologists\u2019 report summary will be available on the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/marinescience.blog.gov.uk\/\">Cefas GOV.UK blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"note-for-editors\">Note for editors<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/groups\/fish-health-inspectorate\"><abbr title=\"Fish Health Inspectorate\">FHI<\/abbr><\/a>, acting on behalf of Defra, is the official service for the prevention and control of the spread of notifiable disease in England and Wales<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/report-serious-fish-or-shellfish-diseases\"><abbr title=\"Koi herpesvirus\">KHV<\/abbr><\/a> disease was made notifiable in England and Wales in 2007. Since then there have been almost 100 outbreaks of clinical disease in fisheries in England. <\/li>\n<li>infected fisheries are subject to controls \u2013 called confirmed designations &#8211; to prevent the further spread of the disease. <\/li>\n<li>up until 1 June 2015, confirmed designations were in place for at least four years. During the first two years a series of visual inspections were undertaken by the <abbr title=\"Fish Health Inspectorate\">FHI<\/abbr> at a time of year when clinical disease is most likely to occur. This was followed by at least two years of testing of na\u00efve (sentinel) fish which were introduced into the infected waters in cages. Confirmed designations were removed from fisheries following successful completion of the four year programme. This involved having no re-occurrence of clinical <abbr title=\"Koi herpesvirus\">KHV<\/abbr> disease and achieving two sequential years of negative testing for <abbr title=\"Koi herpesvirus\">KHV<\/abbr> during this period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1510\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Fish Health Inspectorate<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:%20fhi@cefas.co.uk\"> fhi@cefas.co.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm<\/span><br \/>\n              01305 206700\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FHI have changed their monitoring programme for confirmed cases of Koi herpesvirus disease in fisheries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}