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The animal health database
The animal health database (vet@) is used by the veterinary services for the documentation of the health situation on farms, including details about health status, treatment and vaccinations of individual animals. It is based on reports from practitioners to the Swedish Board of Agriculture. All veterinarians are obligated to continuously report activities of their veterinary practice on production animals. The purpose is to monitor the animal health situation in Sweden and use it as a base for preventive measures.
Swedish Board of Agriculture
The Swedish Board of Agriculture, SBA, is the Government’s expert authority in the field of agricultural and food policy, and is responsible for agriculture and horticulture. This includes monitoring, analysing and reporting to the Government on developments in these areas, and implementing policy decisions within its designated field of activities.
The SBA promotes animal health by strict animal welfare requirements and by combating and preventing the spread of contagious animal diseases. The SBA is also the chief authority for the Swedish district veterinarians. Besides their official tasks, the district veterinarians also do clinical work and are increasingly involved in herd health service in dairy herds.
National Veterinary Institute
The Swedish National Veterinary Institute (SVA) is a government expert authority within the field of risk assessment, prevention, diagnostics and the control of contagious and other serious infectious dis-eases including zoonotic agents. Diagnostic capacity for the most important contagious animal diseases is available at SVA. Antimi-crobial resistance in bacteria from animals and from food of animal origin is monitored regularly and several control- and monitoring programmes are conducted in cooperation with stakeholder organizations and relevant authorities. Research and development are other important tasks for SVA.
Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control
The Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (SMI) is a governmental expert agency with the mission to monitor the epidemiological situation of infectious diseases in humans. Central to SMI operations is to efficiently trace, analyse and combat infectious diseases. Preparedness for outbreaks of severe infectious diseases, both inside and outside the country´s borders is at a high priority for SMI. Diagnostic analyses of bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi, as well as water and environmental analyses are also a part of SMI´s capacity. SMI’s research and development is closely connected to its other preventative measures, as well as response to the cur-rent public health situation.
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