Dogs: Brucellosis

(asked on 22nd March 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many cases of Brucella Canis were reported between April 2021 and January 2022; and what data her Department holds on reported cases of Brucella Canis between January 2011 and April 2021.


Answered by
Mark Spencer Portrait
Mark Spencer
Minister of State (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 29th March 2023

We consider a case to be a single epidemiological event. Each event may involve 1 or more dogs.

For example, many cases are just 1 dog (imported rescue dog) while another case may involve a breeder of a litter of dogs where more than 1 dog is infected.

So between 1st April 2021 – 31st January 2022: Cases = 35 (37 positive dogs).

Prior to April 2020 we have data identifying 3 cases: 2 in 2017 and 1 in 2018 (all single dogs imported from eastern Europe).

1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021: Cases = 14 (53 positive dogs)

Total January 2011 – April 2021 is the sum of these 17 cases (56 positive dogs).

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