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East Sussex (Edge) Year-End Report 2019 Year-end descriptive epidemiology report: Bovine TB in the Edge Area of England County: East Sussex Year-end report for: 2019 TR398 (Rev. 04/20) Contents Executive summary ............................................................................................................. 1 Reporting area ................................................................................................................. 1 Local cattle industry ......................................................................................................... 1 New incidents of TB ......................................................................................................... 1 Suspected sources and risk pathways for TB infection .................................................... 1 Disclosing tests ................................................................................................................ 1 Reactor numbers .............................................................................................................. 2 Risks to the reporting area ............................................................................................... 2 Risks posed by the reporting area .................................................................................... 2 Forward look .................................................................................................................... 2 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 3 Changes to the Edge Area in 2018 ...................................................................................... 3 Cattle industry ...................................................................................................................... 4 Herd Types ....................................................................................................................... 4 Markets and abattoirs ....................................................................................................... 4 Approved Finishing Units ................................................................................................. 5 Common land ................................................................................................................... 5 Descriptive epidemiology of TB ........................................................................................... 5 Temporal TB trends.......................................................................................................... 5 Geographical distribution of TB incidents ......................................................................... 8 Other characteristics of TB incidents .............................................................................. 14 Suspected sources, risk pathways and key drivers for TB infection ............................... 17 TB in other species ........................................................................................................ 20 Detection of incidents ..................................................................................................... 21 Skin test reactors and interferon gamma test positive animals removed ........................ 23 Summary of risks to East Sussex ...................................................................................... 24 Summary of risks from East Sussex to surrounding areas ................................................ 24 Assessment of effectiveness of controls and forward look................................................. 25 Appendices ........................................................................................................................ 27 Appendix 1: overview of risk and surveillance areas of England and Edge Area objectives and controls ................................................................................................... 27 Appendix 2: cattle industry in East Sussex ..................................................................... 30 Appendix 3: summary of headline cattle TB statistics .................................................... 31 Executive summary Reporting area East Sussex is part of the Edge Area that was established in 2013. The following year, the bovine tuberculosis (TB) surveillance strategy for this area was incorporated into the Government’s strategy to achieve Officially Tuberculosis Free (OTF) status for England by 2038. The Edge Area has an overall moderate but recently rising incidence of infected herds with substantial variability from county to county. This end of year report describes bovine TB in East Sussex. Local cattle industry East Sussex has a relatively low cattle density and is predominantly made up of small beef herds with a mean of 88 cattle per holding. There are only 12 herds with over 501 cattle and these are mostly dairy herds. New incidents of TB There were only four new Officially Bovine Tuberculosis Free Status Withdrawn (OTF-W) and 19 new Officially Bovine Tuberculosis Free Status Suspended (OTF-S) incidents in 2019. This compares to 14 OTF-W and 13 OTF-S incidents in 2018. The annual herd incidence rate (incidents per 100 herd- years at risk) is slightly lower than in 2018: 4.6 in 2019 compared to 5.1 in 2018. Suspected sources and risk pathways for TB infection The most likely source of TB infection for cattle in both the former High Risk Area of England (HRA) part of East Sussex and in the original Edge Area was contact with infected wildlife, but with undetermined source and cattle movements also featuring highly. Details of the methodology used to calculate the weighted contribution of the different suspected sources of M. bovis infection for all new incidents can be found in the main body of the report and in the Explanatory Supplement to the 2019 bovine TB epidemiology reports. Disclosing tests The majority of incidents in 2019 were disclosed by annual routine whole herd surveillance tests (57%), radial testing (22%), six month post-incident tests (9%) and slaughterhouse case tests (9%), and one incident (4%) was disclosed by a pre-movement test. 1 Reactor numbers Less skin test reactors were removed in 2019 (78) representing a decrease from 146 in 2018. Less interferon-gamma (IFN-y) reactors were removed in 2019 (133) compared to 2018 (150). The mean number of reactors per incident also decreased to 9.2 in 2019 compared to 11.0 in 2018 and the number of reactors per 1000 animal tests has decreased to 2.8 in 2019 from 3.7 in 2018. These decreases are most likely explained by the reduction in the number of new incidents and lower proportion of OTF-W incidents. Risks to the reporting area East Sussex is bordered by Low Risk Area (LRA) counties, so cattle movements from higher incidence areas are the main threat of incursions of TB into East Sussex. Risks posed by the reporting area The endemic areas in East Sussex remain stable with little threat to adjacent LRA counties by spread of infection in wildlife, although whole genome sequencing (WGS) has shown that M. bovis genotype 13:a is likely to be circulating in wildlife found just north of the A27. The main threat to the LRA is from cattle movements from the Edge Area and by a few TB incidents that straddle the borders. These risks are mitigated somewhat by statutory pre- and post-movement TB testing and farms spanning the border taking on the annual testing regime of the Edge Area. Forward look There has been a decline in the number of new TB incidents in 2019, especially in the number of OTF-W incidents. However, the number of OTF-S incidents has increased and these are spread throughout the county. These could be an indicator of an undetermined low level of background infection and must be monitored. The lack of genotype data associated with OTF-S incidents makes the source of infection for those with no obvious link to purchases difficult to assess. The uptake of badger intervention, improving on-farm biosecurity and taking advantage of the free advice available to cattle farmers in the Edge Area from the TB Advisory Service is to be encouraged. 2 Introduction This report describes the level of bovine tuberculosis in cattle herds in East Sussex in 2019. Bovine TB is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis), and will subsequently be referred to as TB. This report explores the frequency and geographical distribution of TB in cattle herds. It examines what is likely to be driving TB in East Sussex, and the risks the disease in this county may pose to neighbouring cattle. Although other sources may refer to TB ‘breakdown(s)’, this report will use the term ‘incident(s)’ throughout. This report is intended for individuals involved in the control of TB, both in the local area and nationally. This includes, but is not limited to: farmers, veterinarians, policy makers and the scientific community. In 2014 the Government published its Strategy to achieve Officially TB Free (OTF) status for England by 2038. A key action was to recognise the different levels of TB in different parts of the country and to vary the approach to control accordingly. To this end three management areas were established (refer to Appendix 1). East Sussex forms part of the Edge Area. Overall, the Edge Area has a moderate but recently rising incidence of infected herds with substantial variability from county to county. Control efforts are seeking to slow down and reverse geographic spread, and to reduce the incidence rate. The aim is to obtain OTF status for the Edge Area as
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