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As a partner with NORAD's Knowledge Bank, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute wishes to contribute to projects that NORAD wants to establish abroad. A group from the Norwegian Veterinary Institute visited Morogoro in Tanzania 10.-13. October, including the veterinary faculty at the Sokoine University (SUA), to explore the possibilities for future cooperation.

Thursday 6th of October, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute notified the Norwegian Food Safety Authority of a new confirmed case of CWD on Hardangervidda, in a hunted female wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus). Both lymph node and brain tissues tested positive.

In this video, we visualize our mission to identify and prevent threats to animal and human health. - The Norwegian Veterinary Institute is crucial for what we do for animal health in Norway, says Geir Pollestad, the Minister for Agriculture and Food, in the video. 

-The most important measure to protect people against rabies, is to vaccinate the dogs, says researcher at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) Hannah Joan Jørgensen in this video. NVI marks World Rabies Day today 28. September 2022 together with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya, where Jørgensen participates in a campaign to vaccinate dogs against rabies.

Based on submitted samples, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute notified the Norwegian Food Safety Authority when a semi-domestic reindeer slaughtered in Norway, Børgefjell national park, tested positive for CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease). The suspicion has now been disproved.

As the publication of the results for the regular Research Council of Norway (RCN) calls 2022 reaches its end, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute has secured funding for coordinating seven new projects, and has therefore good reasons to be happy with the new possibilities ahead.

The Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) and WorldFish coordinated recently a training program in aquatic animal health at the WorldFish center at Abbassa in Egypt. The program aimed at building the competence of participants to improve fish health management through diagnostics and research activities in the framework of One Health.

Freya the walrus was in good health, and died immediately upon euthanization, as stated in the post mortem report submitted by the Norwegian Veterinary Institute today.

After being examined at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute in Ås, the walrus Freya's skeleton was transferred to the Natural History Museum in Oslo, where it will be part of the museum’s collections.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), an EU decentralised agency, which main role is to provide scientific advice on existing and emerging risks associated with the food chain in Europe, has offered Prof. Carlos Gonçalo das Neves (41) the position as their new Chief Scientist. Today, Carlos das Neves is Director of Research and Internationalisation at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute.