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For the first time, a devastating crayfish plague outbreak has been monitored from the onset to crayfish extinction using eDNA methodology. David A. Strand and colleagues surveilled a watercourse over three years. They discovered a remarkable correlation between eDNA fluctuations and host-pathogen dynamics.

Carlos das Neves, director for research and internationalisation at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute will be the new president of the International Wildlife Disease Association.

In the BIO-DIRECT initiative at the Norwegian Veterinary Institute, the goal is to develop a future-oriented veterinary diagnostics that can detect disease quickly and accurately by using new biomarkers and establishing organ-like cell models that can minimize animal experiments.

A tick-borne virus that can infect humans and potentially cause a serious infection of the central nervous system has been found for the first time in milk from Norwegian dairy cows. A study of this virus in cervids may help us understand how this virus is spreading in Norway.

A Chinese delegation with representatives from two companies connected to livestock production in China visited recently the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI). The aim was to get a better knowledge about the animal health in Norway and hear how the institute contributes to prevent, detect and respond on emerging diseases that can have a big economic impact on the livestock industry. 

By adopting and using newer sequencing technology - so-called "Next-generation sequencing", the Norwegian Veterinary Institute will streamline its work and improve the competence and access to sample material from animals, fish, the environment and food.

The Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) has appointed Carlos das Neves as director for research and internationalisation. Carlos is currently Head of the food safety and antimicrobial resistance section at NVI, and is a senior researcher in the fields of wildlife health and One Health.

Monitoring of antimicrobial resistance in the environment and among wild animals is currently inadequate. The Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) participates in an international network that will map the need for new knowledge about antibiotic resistance, what is known and how monitoring data can be compared.

The Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) has tested all samples from wild reindeer taken during the 2018 hunt in Hardangervidda and in Nordfjella zone 2, and has not found a single case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD).

In 2018, the Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) analyzed more than 33 000 samples from deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD).