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The article offers information regarding the disease surveillance on animals in Scotland in March 2016 focusing various diseases found in livestock animals in the country. Topics include hypomagnesaemia in calves in Edinburgh and Dumfries, congenital oxalate-associated nephropathy on lambs, and rotavirus on pigs.

The article discusses the ragwort plant poisoning among the livestock including cattle, lambs, and poultry in Aberdeen, Scotland. Topics discussed include the diagnosis of hypomagnesaemia in calf, the death of suffolk lamb due to severe diarrhoea cause by enteric listeriosis, and the outbreak of urolithiasis diseases which causes the death of lambs. Also mentioned is the death of wild birds due to the isolation of salmonella typhimurium.

The article offers information on the Great Britain Animal and Plant Health Agency's disease surveillance report for August 2014. The report found that hypomagnesaemia was diagnosed in twenty dairy calves which were feeding on milk and straw. According to the report, Mycoplasma wenyonii infection was found in a couple of dairy herds.

The article reports on the issued press release by SAC Consulting Veterinary Services (SAC C VS) on August 2012, which notes a rise in blackleg cases in cattle herds in throughout Scotland. It mentions the free testing of antibodies to the Schmallenberg virus (SBV) in animals from areas where the virus is circulating in order to minimise the problem of SBV in Scotland in the spring of 2013. Various blackleg cases including liver fluke infection, pleuropneumonia, and hypomagnesaemia were noted.

The article discusses various diseases affecting farm animals due to the cold winter in Great Britain. It states that February 2010 saw temperatures below 2.0 to 2.5° overall, resulting in sunnier weather to the west and excessive rain to the east. Such conditions exacerbate certain diseases in animals and prompted the Scottish government to advise pregnant women to stay away from sheep. Animal diseases cited include hypomagnesaemia, respiratory tract and reproductive tract conditions.

The article focuses on the quarterly report of the Northern Ireland animal disease surveillance for January to March 2007. Among the animals that have been discussed include cattle, sheep, birds, and miscellaneous mammals. The report revealed that hypomagnesemia that can cause ion disturbances was found in a suckler calf. Pathogens were also identified in fecal samples from neonatal calves and endoparasitic parasites in ruminants.

The article focuses on the cattle diseases discussed in the Veterinary Laboratories Agency's (VLA) disease surveillance report for England and Wales for August 2007. They include the diagnosis of parasitic gastroenteritis in a Limousin cross calf in Penrith; the diagnosis of Salmonella typhimurium infection on three Shrewsbury premises; and the investigation of two cases of hypomagnesemia in Starcross.